The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 1-13-25: Mike McCarthy not returning as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneNews dropped just before the show that Mike McCarthy will not be returning as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. We go over the top list of names to replace him which include Deion Sanders, Kellen Moore, Kliff Kingsbury and a few extra we added in like Jason Witten. Plus, our Houston buddy, Landry Locker, joins to recap the Super Wild Card Weekend and sticks around for the News and Today in History (00:00) - Open: Mike McCarthy will not be back (35:13) - Weekend check (01:07:33) - Super Wildcard Weekend with Landry Locker (01:44:18) - News: Rejected license plates (02:09:08) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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I was feeling pretty dangerous. Care to expand on that? I just woke up feeling real dangerous. Yeah. Care to expand on that? I just woke up feeling real dangerous. You're the funniest person I've ever met, Baker Mayfield. Signed, B, old media guy. Yeah, it's all great if you are winning games and you're 13 for 13. But if you're not, then you need to show a little more maturity. And we're going to usher you out the door and just turn our whole franchise upside down

trying to find a guy who we think is more mature. I don't know. What about a guy who has like 40 sexual assault allegations against them at the point? Somehow Baker's failure yesterday is already about the Browns. But he's probably more mature, right? Who are we talking about the Browns right now?

Baker's on the mind. Hey, pour some honey on him, right? I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jake Kemp. I'm Blake Jones. It's all fun and games when it's Dak effing everything up. Where's the honey? And along with Danny Bayless. Danny Bayless.

Danny Bayless. Heavy metal Bayless. Who's handling the video today. We're broadcasting live to tape from high atop my garage. The day after the the Baker fix was in, the NFL didn't want him to go any farther.

He gets a lot of ratings, but Let's see how he works this one out. The playoffs are going to get big ratings anyway. Okay. And so they're trying to give Washington... New ownership? The new ownership, a little something, a little kiss as they're coming in for Dan Snyder.

Darling Jaden Daniels. Get him that new stadium. Yeah, get him a quarterback who will probably be out of the league in five years. So the scriptwriters told Baker to fumble. Boy, what a colossal video that is. I was just going to say, though, I mean, you've got to get the command skins in because it is the place to see and be seen, and you need more of that through the playoffs.

The command skin. Back to that play. Hilarious. Very Romo is a good way to put it. It just looked very Romo. Or maybe very what I got used to from Cooper Rush. Down the stretch. Rush would fumble a snap on you.

We played that clip of Brian Schottenheimer on the sideline. Boy, you love putting that ball on the ground, don't you? Unfortunately, you usually fall on it. I was just laughing the other day thinking about Brian Schottenheimer. DC and I were joking around about this. Apparently this is going to be

pertinent today because not only will the Cowboys likely have a new offensive coordinator unless Jerry was just so taken with Brian Schottenheimer that he retains him when they hire a new head coach. Mike McCarthy is gone. So wait, that's official?

That is official. And I know it's official because it's coming from Tommy P. Pelissero, who's McCarthy's guy. Oh. Or is it McCarthy putting that out? Well, one or the other, but it says, hey, there's no further negotiations. Like, we're done. They were talking about duration, term.

But you knew this whole thing was poisoned as soon as Jerry was like, yeah, a lot of people think you should just get paid by the win. Yeah, he wants the incentive-based coaching contract. Yeah. And then Jane Slater was like, yeah, but wouldn't other teams just not offer that? Yeah, that's the whole bit. Sure. That's the whole bit. Sure. That's the whole capitalism thing here.

An understanding of market. But no, Brian Schottenheimer is a funny one because everybody knows the NFL. Everybody knows. Everybody knows. Rampant nepotism, even more than the normal business world. And most teams will try to guard against that a little bit and not just be so blatantly obvious about it. Like list off, well, no, he's done this.

He's got a bunch of accomplishments. His scheme is – and then they asked him about Brian Schottenheimer, and he's like, his dad was awesome. Yeah, he's like, I don't know anything about him. No. I remember seeing him when he was a kid. I knew his dad. His wife was a sweetheart.

Dad's a good dude. God rest her soul. So McCarthy's out. Mm-hmm. The Cowboys haven't said anything? He was dad. His wife was a sweetheart. Dad's a good dude. God rest her soul. So McCarthy's out. Mm-hmm. The Cowboys haven't said anything? No. No.

I mean, first it was Schefter this morning. Cowboys, Mike McCarthy eligible to talk to other teams after midnight Tuesday. Still haven't been any negotiations on a new deal with Dallas. He's going to get interest from Chicago and New Orleans. And then Pellicero hopped in this morning with, or about half an hour ago, Mike McCarthy is out as Cowboys coach. The sides couldn't agree on length of contract

and McCarthy will pursue other opportunities. That means his agent's already been talking to other teams and knows I can beat that. You would think. Yeah. Unless his agent is making a colossal mistake. Which happens. But also, I have to finish the Pelissero tweet. He leaves Dallas with a winning record in three playoff appearances.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's important context. What's the – so a playoff winning record? I don't see that on here. Okay. Three playoff appearances. Yeah. Boy, I thought I had the Cowboys breaking news for you that you didn't know.

I was just reading a PFF article this morning that said, Brandon Aubrey wins the PFF Special Teams Player of the Year. Nice. And I guess he's, in fact fact gotten the highest PFF grade ever. Wow. For a kicker. Beating Justin Tucker's 2021, Justin Tucker's 2016, and Chris Boswell this year then is fourth of all time.

I think that's really cool, and it's something we've touched on with him. I think that's really cool, and it's something we've touched on with him. It frankly blows my mind, the way that statistics and negotiations and all these sort of things work. More than any other position, every play is different for a kicker. They should not all just go into one column. Even distance, you know what I mean? To just say, well, this year I went X for X. That's my efficiency.

Pay me on that. That's insane. Oh, okay, 30 for 35 or whatever I was in field goals this year. Yeah, because with other players, they watch the tape. You have a coach that is not aggressive, so you kick a lot of 20-yard field goals. Yeah, or a coach that's like, hey, I think you might be able to hit from 70. F it. Let's try it.

Well, that's just a miss. You're going to have less, yeah. Yeah, whereas with regular players, they're watching the tape so in-depth. They have a pretty good idea what you are, more than just statistics. But with kickers, I get the sense that, you know, based on what he's told us and him telling us that Banger will get upset about net average, that it's like the teams are like, well, what's your made for miss? That's cool.

So I thought it was cool. And so I texted him this story this morning. What a dork. Why is that a dork? I'm just kidding. It's really cool. Brandon, look at this. I'm making fun of you. I think it's cool that we're friends with him. that a dork? I'm just kidding. It's really cool. Hey, Brandon, look at this. I'm making fun of you.

I think it's cool that we're friends with him. Would he want this? I don't know. Maybe. Did you tell him about Bones' birthday? No. You kind of started the track there. You can't do both. Yeah. I don't want to over text him, but this is pretty rare. It's a big thing and it's better than Justin Tucker ever and all this.

So I thought, okay. It is cool. He's our buddy. Let's send it to him just FYI. And that's what I put under it, FYI. That's it. Don't care. And he wrote back, that's pretty neat. Because he's probably went to a mailbox and looked for his PFF, Brandon Aubrey's Best Special Teamer Ever award,

and it is empty in there. Yeah, but he probably copied that text and sent it to his agent. I was going to say. Possibly. It probably is the case that agents do use stuff like that now. Oh, yeah. Because the NFL, the teams, they trust PFF because they use them. Every team has an insane PFF package, RIP to me having access to it,

that I'm positive agents use i'll bet you too he doesn't well i don't know i mean money's money life you got kids you got a future i was just trying to think does he go on the free agent market eventually and try to get the absolute best deal? Or is it cool that he lives in his hometown? All of his family is here. Everything's been going so great. Us, I think we've got to contribute to that.

Sure. And might he say, you know, can we just work out a deal that we're all happy with here and make it a multi-year deal? I don't know. You might have to ask the pilot about this. The pilot? The wife.

Oh, yeah. That's what I mean, though. Does she want to pick up? Right. You got the grandbaby and the grandparents there and all that. I don't know. Well, anyway, congrats to Brandon Aubrey. Not so much to Mike McCarthy.

Well, maybe., congrats to Brandon Aubrey. Not so much to Mike McCarthy. Well, maybe. Maybe congrats. Yeah, maybe he has a feel that – Don't you think this was his decision? Well, I think he probably didn't want to coach on one or two years of guaranteed money. Okay, whose decision – yes. If the ticket doesn't offer – like they won't – whose decision is it to leave? Or like a basketball team that had like a president and CEO

and they had been hired to kind of right the ship of the organization and then a new person bought the team and that person's contract came up and they're like, why are you here? Did that person leave the team? Whose decision? Yeah. Like you said, though, if it's the Cowboys are saying, we want to offer you a two-year deal or a four-year deal with incentives

based on playoff success. That's probably what happened. And then you say, though, it's Mike McCarthy's decision to leave. Well, I don't know. Did the Cowboys actually make that decision? Because they knew I am offering a deal that no one with this resume would accept. Dude, almost no one at all. Maybe Bones.

Maybe. Yeah, but what if they offer a market value deal that is very respectable, and Mike says it's not worth getting paid what a normal coach gets paid because I have to deal with you idiots. Yeah. But then it is his decision because that's a normal deal that a guy – That's different. Yeah. And it's already – let's say it's already –

I'm speculating that that's not the case. I think McCarthy is real sick of the last two years. It can all be the case. It can be the case that he's sick of it and that he's like, look, if I'm coming back here, I'm not coming back here on a one- to two-year deal where you're constantly hanging this over my head. It's already hard enough here. Yeah, I think the past two or three months,

we've seen a guy really in love with his players in the locker room and what he had going on but over time it just became not worth the circus of reporters having to decide do i want to talk to jerry after the game or do i want to talk to the head coach and then the reporter runs hey jerry just said this what's your response i think you got real tired of that really really tired of that yeah just boy just... Boy, yeah. I've gone through the year of the Cowboys, which we'll do later this week, and just some of the BS this guy's had to deal with. I don't blame him

for going somewhere else. I don't... Look, I'm not upset, necessarily, they're firing McCarthy. I probably would have brought him back at the end of the day, just because I know what else they're going to do as the alternative, but to continue the theme of the year, they bungled the hell out of this. First of all, if they're going to fire him, they should have fired him last year

and just got going on it. But then now it's like it's a pretty disrespectful move. I think I saw Sod say that. So all you do for the last two months is like this guy's great. He's the best. We love him. He's done everything right. And then you decide that you want to move on from him,

and you don't even do it in the normal way like a week ago? Yeah, you deny his request from the Bears. You deny his request to talk to other teams, and then you let him go? Yeah. A week later? That's a shitty way to handle business. You tried to, you know, get the offer that you wanted to get through.

So yet again. I don't know why you would think that he would accept that, though. You mean like thinking that if you just strung this out, you were going to get a bargain on Dak? No, it's never going to work. You always end up paying what other people are going to pay and maybe more. See, I can't sit here and be upset that McCarthy's gone because I did want him gone last year.

But it does make you think, what are they going to do? Yeah, that's the thing. Frabel's gone. Yeah, when Belichick was out there, obviously I was fired up. Although Belichick's always still out there. Money can talk to him. But if you were kind of nickel and diming your head coaching position here for the last how many years?

All of them. 15, 20 since Parcells. Yeah, true. You haven't shown that you have any respect for the head coaching position. Especially a head coach who's going to come in and say, I need things done in a certain way. And I think that's the real way to get a franchise culture to change is the head coach. Unless you have a real solid franchise culture like Pittsburgh, I want to say like Baltimore, but maybe part of that was the head coach that they brought in.

But I think they just brought in a head coach that fits that. It feels like Baltimore was doing this previous to. But like the classic, you know, Shanahan wanted John Lynch, right? Well, yeah, they brought in Shanahan and said, what do you want? Okay, I will hire, you know, the head coach hired the GM. That's Belichick style. Because he's like, you know, I know the players I want,

the scheme I want to run, you know, down to, you know, the type of player I want at backup, you know, defensive line. And instead of, you know, a GM's vision and then I have to make work, like Mike McCarthy has to make things work, whatever he gets. If Mike McCarthy went into last offseason

as the Shanahan-type power head coach, he would have been directing his GM or they would have been working much more closely together. Like, they would never have re-signed Zeke. No. They probably would have tried to go get another wide receiver. Or gotten his star receiver in camp. Get this deal done.

How much better do you think this can get if we let this drag out? I mean, San Francisco had a star receiver holding out of camp for a little while as well, but not star to the same magnitude. Not as important. That was Iuke, right? Yeah, but I think there was more uncertainty of whether he would be back or be traded. I think there were more factors.

Everyone knew CD was coming back. Right. They were talking Iuke trade and that was a possibility. Well, what a mess. What a mess. I don't know. I mean, you've got a team like the Bears who seemingly wants to interview Danny. They've got a list of 100 people long, and now here's the Cowboys.

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for that right away because it seemed like you had a playoff-bound team. Now, Belichick would have probably said, hey, let's sit together and take a look at this roster. And you know what? No, I don't want this running back. I just had him. Did you see him in New England? Like, you're watching the video and stuff?

That's all you have to do. It's all available to everybody. All right, you don't want to watch all the video? That takes a lot of time. Here, let me pull up this page of stats. Okay? I mean, he's clearly diminishing, but Jerry thought they could sell a lot of jerseys,

and they did. They did sell those jerseys. Here's now what I'm hoping for. And even my realistic scenarios are very unrealistic because other than me pulling up just names of guys who have coached NFL teams who currently don't, like I don't know what that is right now, let's say the Steelers move on.

Tomlin? I don't think Tomlin fits here, do you? I don't think so. Who does? Well, that's the thing. Kellen Moore? Yes, so we're trying to evaluate who the Cowboys will bring in. I would take Kellen Moore in a heartbeat.

I think you can make that work. I think he's awesome. I understand that he's – He fits the bill because he knows the situation here. He's been here. Been here, coached here, played here. They already know him. Yeah.

Like you're not bringing in Ben Johnson. Don't think he's going to make plays. Who might have these crazy ideas. Yeah. I don't think he's going to rock the boat, be that – as a young guy or a Tomlin, they like Kellen Moore. He knows Dak. And I'll tell you, as much as we worried about him on the leader of men standpoint,

everybody who played with him and for him, Zeke I remember even being like, I don't know how he does it. Kellen Moore? Yeah, but he's got a way of getting to us. He was like 90-2 in college or something, right, as a quarterback. 50-1, I want to say. Is that it? I think so. 50-1, I want to say. Is that it? I think so.

50-1 regular season. Something. But anyways, I don't know what the list is. Garrett? Dude, we riot. I saw he was crushing it in picks last night when they put the standings up on Sunday Night Football. He was crushing it?

Yeah. Or crushed it? No, he was like 18-3. Oh. So maybe he's still got it. But who is it, though? Bones is not out of the question. Bones is not out of the question. I don't think that'd be a horrible idea.

Their best unit, you could argue, this year. I mean, I certainly hope not just for... And the players love him. Right. That goes to my – I was thinking about, you know, as we go through NFL games today, players love Dan Quinn. When's the last time you thought that's the feeling coming out of the Cowboys locker room? Yeah, but –

I don't know that players love playing for McCarthy. I don't know that players love playing for Par. I don't know that players love playing for Parcells until they're retired either, though. But Garrett, for sure, and that was a long run. But you could probably say that about previous, Campo, Gailey. Because for the players to love the coach, they have to know that the coach matters.

And they have to know that that's the guy they have to respect and have a relationship with. I don't know that guys love Belichick, but they at least respected him. And later, you know, definitely, in retrospect, said I loved playing for that guy.

But McCarthy's just kind of there. Now he wins a lot, so that helps. But no, I don't know the mojo moment anybody's like, boy, the turning point in my career is when I heard the Austin Powers theme in training camp that year. Will McClay? That'd be wild. Did you get a draft pick?

He's been a coach. For elevating someone from in your own? He's been a head coach with the USFL or whatever they had. Arena. Arena football. Yeah. But you mentioned Dan Quinn. The year after they let Dan Quinn go, they fire McCarthy.

Dan Quinn wins a road playoff game. Yeah. That's Sean Payton 2.0. Sean Payton? Is it not? No, he wasn't there last year. He was Denver already. The. Sean Peyton? Is it not? No, he wasn't there last year. He was Denver already. The coordinator that got away?

Yeah. And Kellen Moore may be that if he ends up going somewhere else. Because, you know, I don't know if you've looked, but the Eagles offense, while very well equipped, is pretty good. So that's an option. I mean, you're going to get the names like Robert Sala. Because he has coached before He is a tough guy Do wonder how that

Syrian flag Or Lebanese flag would play here But whatever Jimmy's 82 Yeah What's Barry got? Yeah, Switzer. There's not a lot of guys who would fit the mold.

McCarthy was like made in a lab. Zimmer kind of was talking as if he's out the door. Yeah. I could easily, but if he's back, I could easily see him doing that. Like, hey, you're just overseeing everything. So they do a classic Cowboys deal where they fire McCarthy late and replace him with a defensive coordinator like a year after they should have fired McCarthy

and replaced him with a defensive coordinator. But back to Bones real quick. I'm not just saying this because of Brandon. It would be awesome if they could retain him, no matter who the head coach is because he's legitimately good and exciting and they've got Terp they've got Aubrey

those are guys that well they don't have Terp oh is he free? I didn't know that I should have known that I could see them bringing him back Jerry likes highlights yeah

they should I could see him wanting a bit more than he's worth as well because now we're using me on offense too. Yeah, yeah. What's that about? Yeah, look at this number going up a little bit. No, I'm saying Tomlin. I'm saying he's like, you know what?

Another premier franchise. I'll just deal with it. They might have to trade for Tomlin though. Is that the deal? Have you heard that? No. I know he's not free, but I don't know. Yeah, the thought that you could trade for a head coach.

McCarthy's from Pittsburgh. Sign and trade? You could trade him today, yeah, because McCarthy used to have one day to negotiate. Get the S&T. What a freaking mess. But going back to your stance last week Jake About how this is a family business

You know it's not going to be an exciting name It's going to be a stable name So Whatever There were even rumors that Sark could go to the NFL Or Ben John I mean these exciting names Sure

That's not stable What about This is an unstable version of stable. What about Feetman? Rex Ryan? Okay, I will tell you from... He's like actively pimping for the Jets job. It's been happening all year.

It's been happening since I was in rehab watching that show. And it's definitely... I saw it this Saturday morning. Yeah, this weekend. Yeah, they're talking about the Jets or the Vrabel hire and he's like I'll be kicking his ass twice a year it's like dude this is embarrassing if you get veneers that look like his I might fight you that's the thing that's the risk that's the risk you get Steve-O or Rex Ryan chompers and you look like a joke. You almost need to do the get a B on a test thing

to not be a cheater. Like his teeth can't fit in his mouth. I know. Looks like he's trying to eat them all the time. Yeah, I don't know how he talks through them. He's trying to eat his teeth? Yeah, yeah. It looks like Pam Oliver face whenever you end up like that.

Aaron Glenn? I would sign up for that tomorrow. And Aaron Glenn was a Parcells guy, wasn't he? I think so. So they probably have him. Who's the pick to click right now to replace Mike Zimmer? Certainly that would be a hire from within. Mike Zimmer?

If the Cowboys move on from McCarthy? No, Zimmer, if he does walk away as D.C. and retires and all that, who was the... It's impossible to say without... I was just thinking, is there a hot defensive assistant that the Cowboys have now that they thought would probably step up to D.C.?

Al Harris? Al Harris, yeah. Does Al Harris feel like could be a cowboy coach to you? If you're wanting to get a guy that the players love playing for, then yeah. I mean, I am, but...

Do you think Jerry would instinctively call another black guy in the league? He's like, you don't have to do that. He's like, well, Marvin's already on the phone. Like if they hired Al Harris, is Jerry just so used to any time he does an interview, he has to satisfy the Rooney rule with a token phone call? No, you hired a black guy. You don't have to do it.

Al Harris seems awesome, but I mean, you were talking about risky. Who is the Bengals coach? Marvin Lewis. Actually hire him. Look, we called you seven times in the past. I wonder what he's up to. You've been the only guy that we pretend interviewed, and now let's just go ahead and give you the job.

I mean, to be honest, speaking of the Bengals, I thought before November that they were going to unfairly and incorrectly move on from Zach Taylor. And I guess they still could. Yeah, they kind of rallied hard. They did. That might be they, well, the defense sucked, but, you know. And it's a week later now, so you're probably not fired him now.

No, what a mess. Jeff Saturday? What's the equivalent? Witten. Come on, man. No way. I'm not excited, but I'm excited that you said that name because that's one that I haven't thought of in the family type thing.

It would be incredible. Sean Lee? Yeah, I don't know. What's Keith Brookings doing? Any other whites? Didn't Zach Taylor play here? Dude, Witten. That would be awesome.

I don't know that it would work, but even as a fan, knowing it might not work, I'd be fired up as a fan because it's Jason F. and Witten. He's Mr. Cowboy to me. Dion? See, now he's excited. Whoa. That's a splat, Jerry. me. Deion? See, now he's excited. We are. That's a splat, Jerry.

You know what? I made a splash 20 years ago with this man. It was a free agent signing. That's when Stephen pushed me against the wall and told me not to do it. And you know what? He did that again just yesterday.

He said, no way should I lowball McCarthy and sign Deion Sanders. But here we are. Deion, welcome back to the family. This is where you've always belonged. You know what? I've lived and prospered all these years. Right by this cool Ford dealership. What?

Do you want to introduce Michael Irvin as receivers coach that day or wait a week? Well, speaking of the playmaker, we're not live today, but I'll tell you it's 1156. This news came down about an hour ago. Whatever show it is that Michael Irvin does now, I can't tell you I know for sure. He will be – you will see a clip tonight of him screaming about Deion Sanders. About, hey, look, there's only one man to call.

You know that number. It's Deion Sanders! Yeah, that's right. Yeah. That's what's happening today. I promise you. And I'm not against it. Okay.

My list in my head is... Can we not do Belichick, please? Belichick's way down the list, but he's on my list in my head. Okay. But it's got to have familiarity. That's the way Jerry works. So it is – Deion's on there. Jason Witten is on there.

Kellen Moore is on. We've talked this out now. Aaron Glenn is still – that's an option. I mean, I know he was a cowboy. Aaron Glenn. And he was a Parcells guy, let's put Aaron Glenn on there. And he was a Parcells guy, yeah. But he's also very highly sought after.

Let's pop Aaron Glenn up pretty high. I think his – he's from Texas. He knows Parcells and he was on the team briefly. So I would not be – but the problem there is going to be – And he's worked hand-in-hand with Dan Campbell. He's seen that culture. I want to bring that culture here. I want to bite knees.

100%. And I promise you, Micah would be fired up about that. That's a big factor. They've weathered this storm of tremendous injuries over there throughout this year to still secure the number one seed. Yeah, for sure. On defense, for sure. Yes, that's the problem. of tremendous injuries over there throughout this year to still secure the number one seed? Yeah, for sure. On defense, for sure.

Yes, that's the problem that other teams are also looking for. Other teams? A head coach. So who do we got out there? Bears, the Jets, the Jags. Jags officially fired him, right? Peterson.

Vegas, the Saints. I mean, depends on how you look at it, but I would say the Cowboys are one of the best of those jobs. I mean, obviously you've got Caleb in Chicago. It depends on how you look at it, but I would say the Cowboys are one of the best of those jobs, right? I mean, obviously you've got Caleb in Chicago. You've got whatever you still think of Trevor Lawrence in Jacksonville.

But the Cowboys, if healthy this year, are still probably a 10-win team. And they won 12 of the three years before that. They're going to get a pretty good situation. Even though Dak is Dak, he's probably not getting any better. It's not like you're having to try to figure everything out all over again. Good times. Yeah. We'll follow

this developing story. Yeah, okay. So... Want to do a weekend check before we do? I do. Before we get to NFL talk for the day. We might have an NFL talk guest come on with us. Landry Locker from Houston. As Houston moves on.

And they will actually get to play on Saturday again next week. I love it, dude. Right when I saw the graphic. Have they ever had a Sunday playoff game? Did you see that their social team tweeted out a clip? No. It's from the Real Bros of Simi Valley, which is a pretty niche show,

but I think a lot of audiences have seen it. But the team acknowledges that they hate it and that everyone associates them with it. Like it's just a Photoshop of a guy with the Texans logo and just Saturday early game is the little babies yelling out, like, what's your problem, little bro? They know when they play. We do have a sponsor for Weekend Check.

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check. I know you do. But I will tell you that the winter weather, the freeze, all that kind of stuff, I guess that hit Wednesday night, correct? And then Thursday, we each broadcast from our homes.

Well, you stayed over in Wiley because... It's far. That is a far drive. And then Thursday night was another big freeze. And really, it kind of was raining throughout that day. And so the ground was still covered with snow, but then it was like the mushy, wet snow. And then everything froze up Thursday night.

And so Friday morning, just a sheet of ice. And I swear to God, the garbage and recycling didn't come by here. I usually can hear it and all that. Anyway, I never brought out the garbage and recycling on Friday just because

there's no reason to. There's no way they're running today. Oh, no. And so now, I put it all out for Saturday. Well,

they didn't come collect it Saturday. So maybe they did roll through here on the ice and I didn't even know it. Anyway, if you miss one

recycling garbage day, at least if you have two kids, they tend to really fill those things up. I think recycling, I've come around just based on people saying stuff to me that it's probably a scam,

but it makes me feel good. So I rinse out the milk carton and I throw it in the recycling bin. I kind of, I rinse out every can, I throw it in the recycling bin, whatever. The recycling bin is overflowing

so now I have two boxes in the garage that are also now overflowing with recycling along with the giant bin. The trash is sitting outside. I got animals ripping it apart because I only have one can and then anything else has to go in the bag. Trash is sitting outside. I got animals ripping it apart. Dude. Because I only have one can, and then anything else has to go in the bag outside around it. Tough time to have a party.

And then last night, we have the football watching party. And yeah, the guy at Aspen Creek, Nathan, was like, hey, what should I do with this garbage? I'm like, you better leave it in the garage or else animals are going to rip it apart. By the way, Aspen Creek, fantastic food. They came and catered our football watching party for a second time. And they said, if you go to Aspen Creek in Irving and mention

you heard about them on our show, they'll give you free fried pickles or free queso, like an appetizer. So do it. Why not? Why not? Get something free. Yeah, I was like, did Dan do leaves this weekend?

And then I looked over. Oh, that's what that was? Well, yeah, there's 20 bags of leaves. He did that two weeks ago, I think. Which was, yeah. It looks great. And then you never, yeah, well's 20 bags of leaves. We did that two weeks ago, I think. Which was, yeah. It looks great. And then you never, yeah, well, the yard looks great, but yeah. There's trash everywhere.

Yeah, well, the garbage bag's full of leaves. Apparently, that's just a bulk trash pickup. I don't know how often that is picked up. Once a month? Yeah, the whole neighborhood has bags of leaves. I'm also very concerned because my neighbor had people over to clean his yard, and he's got all his leaves in clear plastic bags. That might be the rule around here.

Uh-oh. Because all mine are in black plastic bags. And can you imagine if I have to take every leaf out of the 20 black plastic bags and pour them into clear plastic bags? Well, no, I mean, I think the obvious move is you put those bags in clear plastic bags. Yeah, I mean, fine print here says put the leaves in clear plastic bags

and what a beating of a regulation that would be. Overflowing garbage and recycling situation. When is this going to get rectified, today or tomorrow? Hopefully tomorrow. It's Tuesday and Friday are our days. And then I won't bore you with the details, but I had a business phone call,

a couple of calls that took me about an hour and a half. A desk. I did it walking around the Home Depot on Saturday. Did you park in the veterans parking spot? I actually was looking at it thinking, what if I parked here? Who's going to stop you? And I didn't because I respect our military unlike you. You're right.

And so, yeah. Besides that, I can give you the TV updates later, but I did some pretty important TV watching over the weekend. Squid Game. Ah, yes. Season 2. I heard it's back. It is back.

And then I will give you a full report on this later, but Jerry Springer, colon, fights camera action. I like it. And I am going to watch it. I watched that documentary. It's about 45 minutes each, two-parter. Yeah. Very worthy.

The thing is that I will watch it and I probably will enjoy it, but I've had two separate reviews. I guess several. One of them people are like, hey, this is interesting. You should watch it. Now you add it to that. And then the other one is from another Springer head, Danny Bayless, who said it didn't go near enough in depth.

And when I find out they didn't even talk to Steve. Hmm. What? Steve? No, Steve? You got to go. Steve is, you can't tell the story without Steve. Okay, well, I'm not an in-depth Jerry guy.

Steve is the bald-headed guy. The successor. Yeah, that they tried to give-depth Jerry guy. Steve is the bald-headed guy. The successor. Yeah, that they tried to give the show after, but Steve was the bouncer. And so, whenever people would get rowdy and out of hand,

he was huge and he was bald. The whole crowd would be like, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, as he's chucking somebody off the stage and keeping two, you know,

transsexuals away from each other. They did not talk to anybody named Steve. That's tough. But I will watch it. Big time with the executive producer and the main guest booker. Oh, okay.

So that was good stuff. And he did tell me that they did the Klan episode. Oh, yeah. The main takeaways for me was, well, I don't want to get into it now. You got a lot on the weekend check, so let you take care of it. Blake, you next? Yeah, I'll go. I'll let Jake finish. So school was postponed Thursday and Friday,

so I had an Argyle basketball doubleheader on Saturday. You're the voice of Argyle basketball. Yeah, which is why the voice is a little rough. Still trying to warm myself up into screaming for three hours. So, yeah, that was Saturday. Didn't quite know how the roads were going to be Saturday morning, so I took my wife to work because, you know, women can't drive. So you're so concerned about her.

So concerned and such a gentleman that, yeah, got up at 5.30 to take her in downtown. Dude, this guy. Do you have like a spittoon? I'd never do that. Like a little piece of straw or something? Like who are you turning into? Did she request this or did you just think, hey, man,

I'm not sure how the roads will? Maybe I just saw my dad do it forever that the weather was bad, he would take her in, and maybe I just feel like dad do it forever That the weather was bad He would take her in And maybe I just feel like I should be doing that That does seem very antiquated Yeah I mean I'll open a door still I guess I do that for everyone

Because then I start to think Then I'm on the road twice as long As you would have been on your own What is called infantilizing her You're like she just can't handle it She's merely a woman So I don't know Which whether it's true or not Called infantilizing her. You're like, she just can't handle it. Can't take care of herself. She's merely a woman. So, I don't know.

Which, whether it's true or not, you're not supposed to do it. Yeah, so I stayed up until 3 playing Xbox, up at 5.15 to take her to work. You're going to die. It doesn't work out. I'm going to argue out basketball doubleheader. I did want to update you on my dog situation because it's changed a little bit since I last complained about

the dog that I took in you got an orphan yeah the one of the brothers in law that was up to no good they thought that they could have a big great Pyrenees dog, which is a giant dog, in an apartment and keep it in a crate

and everything would work itself out. Spoiler, it didn't. So in comes me, the good family member. Hey, I got a yard. We'll see. And I'm finding out that dog people that can't take care of their dog, they'll just say, well, why don't you just take them in for a few days, see how it works out.

They get you on the free trial. Knowing that you can't give the damn thing back. Yeah. Kid, especially if you've got a kid in play. Well, Brooks doesn't really care for him. Interesting. It's just, it was very hard for us to say, no, we don't like this. And so we just dealt with it.

We had our problems. He was getting out. He doesn't listen to anything you say. This is awesome. It was not a good experience, but we just held on to him. Well, with all of the snow and the ice and the female in the house feeling bad for him, the dog slept inside all week. And then when we tried to let him back outside he started digging again he broke he broke our fence to get out um we had neighbors calling

us at 1 a.m friday night hey your dog is roaming the neighborhood the good news is i'm sure this didn't cause any marital strife even it's his brother her brother's dog i didn't remind her that it wasn't my idea at all anyway but to add to add on so the dog was getting out the dog is just bored he boredom barks which drives me insane my wife's idea to fix this mess was to get another dog. Yes. I've got three. Having a kid will save this marriage. I've got three dogs. I don't want any dogs. So now the puppy is getting out with the bigger dog and they're just a little tag team running through the neighborhood. And the bad thing is everyone knows there are dogs. Oh, yeah. You got the bad kid. And anytime somebody sees us, hey, how's Danny? I'm like, dog's name is Danny. So I think I've reached my breaking point.

If anyone wants a great Pyrenees. This is great, though, because I like stuff like this. And I'm going to do the same thing. Don't like him for, you know, just try him out for a couple days. You don't like him, you can bring him back. Block the number. But this is great because he's not 100% scene control guy. This makes me feel good as often as I'm getting cucked.

I got some blind spots. There's a few weaknesses there. But I tried to do the adult thing, and you were talking about infantilizing or something. She said, okay, the big dog is bored. What if we got him a friend to play with, and they could knock each other out with their energy, whatever. Me, knowing that that was a bad idea, I didn't want to tell her no. So I said, I don't know. Whatever you think. If you think

that that'll fix the situation, then that's what we should do. Thinking that you're going to come to the conclusion that we don't need another dog.. Thinking that you're going to come to the conclusion that we don't need another dog. No, no. She came to a different one. She got us a puppy, which is not working out, and now she's realizing, yeah, we don't need these dogs. You're stuck.

Well, at least it's only like the next 15 or 16 years. Yeah, it's only a decade that we've got to weather this storm. It's not like a kid. But just letting the dogs out in the snow, and then they come back in. You've got to wipe their paws, put them back in the utility room. They whimper all night long. It's 2.30. You've got to let them out.

Go wipe their paws, back in. Now it's 4. Then the dog that didn't go out the first time now has got to go back out. I love it. It was horrible. That's why you get tiny dogs, dude. Real easy to deal with. You just pick them up and wrap the whole towel

around them. Yeah. To wipe them off. Then when they get old and can barely get down the steps and stuff, you can easily carry them. Carry them outside. And then when they want to – you just kind of stomp on them. You punt them. Yeah, you just stomp on them, and then that's their euthanasia. So my weekend – maybe some of this has to go tomorrow,

but I had a huge weekend, massive weekend, capped off by the playoff stream. But Saturday night went to the AAC to see Shane Gillis. Oh, yeah. Now, I'd seen Shane a couple times, maybe just once. I don't recall, but definitely the Majestic was the last one. I've never seen an arena comedy show. The closest I ever got was middle, sort of where the Coyotes played when we were in Arizona.

But it was like a college hockey stadium. So it was about half the size of the AAC. But I've never seen an arena comedy show. Yeah. How was that? That'd be weird being up in the second deck. Honestly, I think it's weird. The same level of weird, if you think it's weird

is everywhere because like the stage is a circle square but it's in the middle so does he face the same way the whole time no okay he didn't do like a full stomp around dane cook style dane cook is the first person i ever saw do this okay he's been to the ac oh yeah yeah he did pass this where garden chris rock I know has done it. But like Chappelle, that was House of Blues for me, I think both times. So I'd never seen this setup before. And I guess what I mean by that is if you're up close,

I don't know how much different it is. Because you're not that close. You know what I mean? Like at a comedy club or at a theater, if you're up close, you're pretty close. Where were you? It was section 102, so one of the lower sections. I mean, it was not far.

But not on the floor. No. And, you know, you're looking at the screen the whole time, almost the whole time anyways. But I've been struggling with how to describe this. It was a very interesting night because he's super, super popular. Probably the biggest comedian in the world right now. And while I was certainly not like an early, early adopter of his, I feel like I know enough about him to where I know some of what is and isn't like his true personality.

I definitely think there are words that you should be able to say that and not lose your job and not be viewed as like a hateful person. And I never, when he's doing comedy, feel like he's being mean. I, I, maybe that's cause I listened to his podcast or I read interviews with him, but I never feel like he's just trying to be mean. But I think because he's grouped in with comedians who are like, fuck it, I'll say it. I think there are a lot of people who like that type of comedy. And arrogantly, I'm going to say, who are slightly lower in IQ than I am, that the whole thing for them is just getting to hear the word, the F slur.

Or getting to hear the word the F slur. Or getting to hear the word retard. Like, oh yeah, someone said it! Like, I don't feel that they're getting all of it. And I say all this because it was the second night of the tour.

It started Friday night in San Antonio. I tried to look on Saturday. I tried to do Twitter searches on Saturday to get an idea who's opening for this. Usually at least two acts, right? Like when that show I went to in Phoenix, that was actually a Burt Kreischer show that I went to with Gordon. And Shane was the first act. And it was 15 minutes. And I'm like, well, he should have been headlining.

So this one, it was a guy that TC knew, but I didn't know. An Australian guy was the first one, and he was sort of funny. But the second act was Tony Hinchcliffe. And that seemed like a surprise to most people because the bros went apeshit. So he's the Kill Tony guy that did the Republican convention? The rally at Madison Square Garden, yeah. Oh, okay, yeah. The Puerto Rico thing.

It was very controversial. Yeah, yeah. Which was funny stuff, I think, if he was in a comedy club. Some of it was good for a comedy club, yeah. But it just didn't seem to mesh. And so my thing with him is that show, I think, is funny. It's a good concept where they have people come up and do you know 60 90 seconds of open mic and tell what they think

about him i think he's a good host i've watched his stand-up before and i don't think it's very good it's not for me anyways and here's the distinction he gets up there and you know all of his jokes are shock jockey brady roast yes yeah okay that's that's where maybe and he was good at that yeah maybe that's where i first got real he's got funny jokes and i would say that during his set there were three or four bangers but i also don't really think he's a good comedian to me because a lot of what he's doing is just being mean there's no real punch line it's just like this race sucks and they're dirty and it's not that funny to me yeah but it was very funny to the white power rally that i was at because that's basically i mean dude i'm talking

about when he would when somebody t in particular, would be talking about different races, when he said white people, most of the people in my, in my section stood up and cheered. Like for the concept of Caucasians. Uh, and a lot of his stuff is just mean, like it's not funny. It doesn't see, it feels mean spirited., I realize that's super subjective, how you feel a person is being as a comic, but that's just how it is for me. It was interesting, though, because one of his lines of humor that was very funny to me was abortion-related. And how you can't get an abortion in Texas, you know, but you can do this, you can do this, you can do this, but you can't get an abortion. You know, but you can pay 35 bucks, put her on Spirit Airlines, fly her to Denver, Colorado, and get that knocked out. And he had, like, a whole abortion thing.

Silence. Really? Yeah. And it was awesome. Because me and Kristen were laughing very hard. And our buddy Cameron told me the same thing. That his wife didn't really know anything about Tony. Barely knew Shane.

And she was like, where are we? Because it was like being at a MAGA rally. For real. same thing that his wife didn't really know anything about Tony barely knew Shane and she was like where are we because it was like being at a MAGA rally for real and it was weird like the things that people cheered at didn't cheer out was odd to me then the other thing I'll tell you about Shane I laughed non-stop the whole time it was a great evening a A lot of fun. But it wasn't like a special type set. Where, what I mean by that is two or three of the bits I'd heard before, either in his podcast or like on Rogan, TC, who's seen him a couple times at one-offs, like in South Bend when they were there for a game, said he'd seen all of it. And it wasn't really like a hey i got an hour it was like his phone was on the on the stool and he was just like all right let's try this bit and he would do a 10 minute bit that

maybe he'd done before but added something to it that's interesting for doing that at an arena yeah i was gonna say that's a comedy club work on your stuff and then it almost felt like he was doing a let's figure out what i can do at an arena so that by the end of this tour I can do an arena set. Because there were a couple times where he was like, kind of can't believe that worked in an arena. I can't believe I just told that joke in an arena. And he'd go back. But all of these individual bits were gold.

But it wasn't like Beautiful Dogs or like the one in Austin where – or any special set, you know? Like it didn't flow? And see, TC said that he thought it did, but I just felt like it was a guy kind of effing around for 80 minutes and it was awesome. And it could become a special, but I don't really think it was one. So no disrespect. It was just different.

I just never seen somebody do that before. But, yeah, there were – the parking lots were very teed up. Very, very. I mean, people are empowered, bro. Like, we walked out of there and Kristen was like, well, I know why he won now. I get it. Because, like, when he started doing Trump, his Trump is making fun of and also noting how funny Trump is. Not everyone sees it that way.

They're like, yeah, he's dumb. That's awesome. Interesting. And you can tell also he doesn't really want to do it anymore. Like he's a guy who is left-leaning at heart, who thinks a lot of the language policing is lame, but still kind of is left-leaning at heart. But he's now appealing to this massive right and far-right base,

and you can tell he's a little skittish about it at times. It's interesting to watch him work through. And then working backward, my Saturday day was the kid's sixth birthday party. So again, foolishly, eyes open, similar to Blake's dog situation,

we planned an outside birthday. She really wanted to do it at this park. She really wanted to have a bounce house and a face painter. So when you book the park for $150, invite as many people as you want. No limit. So we did.

And then as the day approached, it became very clear because of the weather Dan detailed, this party was happening inside somewhere. We get a hold of a trampoline place that has an opening. We quickly reroute to let everybody know, hey, it's at the trampoline place. and like i told you guys the other day that was a headcount problem because just about

everybody that was going to show up outside when it was unlimited attendance showed up inside and yeah they've been stuck inside for two days with their kids i can go somewhere and hey free now we were like when it was uh when it was at the park we're like bring the siblings what do we care face painter's just gonna paint everybody's face we're just outside yeah you're paying them for time yeah so why not so we ended up with uh it was a lady face painter right yeah only because i'm trying to remember yeah one time in my entire life good point when there was a man face painter and it doesn't exist. No.

For little kids. And she was a beast, but you're right. Also, definitely no shade here. Maybe this guy ends up hearing this, but I was interested in the backstory. One of the dads in her class, balloon guy. What do you mean? Like he can make animals and stuff? Yeah, and has like a little

rig thing. I don't know that we didn't really ask. How would you ask? You don't know. Okay, you didn't. I think he just contacted my wife and was like, I got the balloons. Okay, I guess. That's a great bit. It's a great bit, except what if

I didn't want it? If you didn't want them there at all? Well, if you didn't want him there at all well if you didn't want the balloon were you like no i'm good like once you offer that you're putting the person in a situation he's just trying to help he did help it was just i i was watching him like how do you get on this path how did what how did this i remember um i would always go out to you know breakfast with my daughters every weekend. IHOP. IHOP, but then I can't remember the place that's over by Target and Grapevine.

It used to be. Now it's like a chicken and waffle place. Ah, yes. But it used to be like a little breakfast place. And I remember I have good memories of going in there, but then Balloon Guy would walk around. And then so now Balloon Guy comes up. I've got a four-year-old and a six-year-old with me.

And so I can't say no, we don't want a balloon. And they're very impressed. And I was too. It was pretty amazing. Whatever he did made us a balloon. But then he also holds his hand out. Like, ah, ah. that's right yeah did i think somehow i was just going to get a free balloon animal i mean but i was just sitting

here minding my business i did not want a free balloon um yeah it's like the mariachi band i've never you never know what to do kid angle a kid angle, it's worse. Or when they walk around, too, sometimes they're trying to pimp their new cookies, and they'll offer a free cookie. It's like, yeah, but I wasn't going to get a cookie. Yeah. And now I can't say no to the cookie that you just held in front of my two little kids right here. Yeah.

Now I have to give them a cookie at 9 a.m. That's true. I feel the same about the bathroom attendant. Oh, the worst. I can get my own soap. Like, don't want you in, 9 a.m. That's true. I feel the same about the bathroom attendant. Oh, the worst. I can get my own soap. Like, don't want you in here at all. Yeah. Like, would be much more comfortable

if you weren't watching me wash my hands. So, it was... I kind of want to pick my nose right now. It was awesome. Like, she had a great time. The kids had a great time, despite the fact of us, like, kind of not really having enough in the way of cupcakes and stuff because again dude everybody brought their siblings yeah

we said it was okay and then to then afterward try to cull the invite list when we have to reroute or tell people like hey if you got to bring a sibling you can't come and some people did pay for their own siblings and really at the end of the day, I don't care. Debt's debt. I'm very comfortable in it. And they got a balloon. They got a balloon, face paint. And, dude, I love those places. Carter and I just balled out. But to wrap up, there was a guy there who worked for the place,

probably 20 years old. And seeing him come into the room, he's like, hey, I'm going to be checking on your party today. It reminded me of how much fun it was to have a job that you could go to just baked out of your mind. You're just like in a video game. You just show up, and you're like, what are we – these kids. He didn't have to – he was good at what he did, which was bring us water.

But when I met him, there's chaos going on. There's 40 kids in this little room. Balloon guys over here. Insane. And he walked in, bloodshot like you would not believe. He's got the TikTok haircut. And he's like, hey, man. He's like, I'm Gabriel.

He's like, I assume you're dad and i'm like yeah man that's me and he's like all right well i'm just taking care of y'all guys he's like uh looks like we're off to a good start i saw some kids bouncing so he's baked and i was like yeah that's i mean that's all there is to do here they're bouncing then later as i told you guys uh i ended up being out i would say about three to four times as much as i thought i was going to be money wise ouch by the end of this day like this is a sweet 16 number in my head what i ended up paying and here's how that happened i was playing with carter like sort of towards the back of the place. Our time is almost up.

So I'm over there, like, bouncing. And I see Gabe approaching, baked. He fucking bounces over to me and hands me the credit card thing. So I'm, like, kind of bouncing. Like, what am I supposed to do? He's like, Jake. He's bouncing. Mr. Kemp, now we're kind of standing there as he's handed me the credit card thing.

I was telling Machine about that this morning. He's like, you should have double bounced him right off there and took off. You can't bring somebody payment. Is it like being served? Do you just avoid him? That's what it felt like, Yeah, it felt like a legal proceeding where they're like, let's catch him here. He won't freak out while he's got the two-year-old.

He's got the kid with him. But overall, what a time. Sorry about your wallet. Wasn't at my house, Blake. That's all that matters. Yeah, you didn't have to clean up. That price tag. Alright, well let's talk NFL in a minute i wake up tomorrow and keep living i mean you don't you just keep playing the game it's a fun

game it's enjoyable you're gonna try and win next year we're gonna try and get back in the playoffs and we're gonna try and win a super bowl that's all you can do. I mean, if we don't, okay. If you do, okay. Then you're really a great player and you're all these things. If you're not, then you're just a pretty solid, good player. And, you know, that's me. I'll have to deal with that. None of you guys and people will.

And that's just part of the job. So you don't sound worried that your confidence will be shaken or anything? I've had a lot worse happen to me than a loss in a sporting event, that's for sure. And if this is the worst thing that ever happens to me, then I've lived a pretty good life. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. My hero. Hey, we love having the local sponsors that we have a true relationship with. Qualis Roofing, I think, is one of those. For sure.

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Still alive. Live to fight another Saturday early window. Yeah, what's the deal? They've only lost that twice. They've played in it every time they've been in that round, and they've only lost in it twice. It's kind of their thing. Have the Texans ever played a Sunday playoff game?

They've played a Sunday playoff game, but not in wild card round. Wild card round, it's been 3.30 at noon literally every time in the entire history of the franchise. There's been no other. So it is a tradition like no other. I actually like it from a perspective of covering the squad because you kind of just get to relax after. There's nothing in between.

But, yeah, it is a tradition like no other. Not being relevant, not going to any conference championships will do that to you. Our buddy Jimmy Football sent us the betonline.ag odds for the Cowboys' next head coach. Get me the top five. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready.

You guys want to guess? Some of the names we were throwing out. I'm looking at Bovadas, so I have a reference point, but I do want to play this game, especially with Landry here. I will tell you this. They sent like a list of top 20 or so. Not on the list, Jason Witten. He's not on Bovada's either.

That's good. That's a good sign right there, right? We're good with that? Look, we don't know. I mean, we're trying to play the game of, like, who would they hire, who would be exciting for us. Really, none of the options that I think are actual possibilities, none of them I'm excited about.

Like, I don't want Witten, but I think it'd be fun. Because let's do this one. On your list, Dan, of top five, bet online, AG, where's Prime? Two. Because Bovada has him at number one, even odds. Even? Dang. Number one on this list is Kellen Moore.

Kellen Moore not even on here. So what does that tell you? Kellen Moore, he should definitely be considered. What about Kingsbury? Number three on my list. Okay. What about Nick Saban? He is on my list, but he's way. Okay. What about Nick Saban? He is on my list, but he's way down there.

What about Belichick? Is Belichick still alive? He has been known to flake. He's sixth on my list, along with Ben Johnson at 10-1 odds. It goes Kellen Moore, Deion, Cliff, Joe Brady. Joe Brady number two on this list. Lincoln Riley. Whoa. Ben Johnson, Belichick, Brian Flores, Lane Kiffin, Liam Cohen, Bobby Slowik.

I was going to say Landry. Bobby Slowik, Bovada. I'll pay for the limo if y'all want that. I'll pay for the Uber. I'll put him in a hotel for his interview. I don't think you want that. Aaron Glenn way down below Nick Saban because we were talking to Aaron Glenn before.

But one name, one name, that is on here that I didn't think about, but I don't think we can rule out. At 22-1, John Gruden. Oh my goodness. Wow. Wouldn't be the worst thing.

Wouldn't be the worst thing. But there's a lot of, that's not like the best PR mix. If you want to get the second chance, I don't know that him and Jerry are like the best mix together. But who supports giving second chances more? It's very true. Than the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, Slowick is on mine at fourth.

Matt Nagy at five. That actually somewhat tracks. Oh, my gosh. He just was a coach, right? Yeah. And then number six here, to let you know how serious Bovada's taking this, at plus 2,800, we have Tony Romo

himself. He's on this list. I have a guy that I think they should hire. I've been carrying this flag now for about nine years. I actually wanted the Texans to hire him three years ago. I think Josh McCown is

destined to be a head coach. I think it's early, but I don't think the Cowboys are going to get top tier. But if I were making a hire, I would hire Josh McCown. And it's a unique resume. It's unique experience. It's not traditional, but you're talking about a guy that played on 12 teams in the NFL, and he was a backup quarterback, which is basically an extra coach. Philadelphia thought enough of him to where Doug Peterson actually let him call plays during preseason. I think 2020 kind of caught up to him, so he stepped away and started his career a little bit later because there was all the BNME stuff, and he got like three interviews with the

Texans. He's a Texas guy. He's a core. He's a backup quarterback. He's doing a hell of a job with Sam Darnold. He's eventually going to be a head coach, but no one has experience like that. And everyone says, can you deal with Jerry Jones? This guy's been in 14, 15 NFL buildings. Like it's, it's actually, nobody has a experience or resume dealing in as many buildings as that with as many quarterbacks.

So if I were hiring somebody, I would hire Josh McCown. It's inevitably going to happen. It might be a little bit soon, but that would be who I would go with. Way outside the box, though. I don't hate that at all. I think that tracks as a really good offensive would go with way outside the box though i don't hate that at all i i think that that tracks is like a really good offensive mind and we also know that uh he once filmed the psa uh against

internet porn yes he did and it was very emotional it was extremely emotional and he also has a very underrated uh pickup basketball highlight tape uh, which it's very high up on my scale of what I value. But I think it's going to happen eventually. It might be too early, but the Cowboys, it's not... I saw, I think David Hellman or someone

said that it's still a top three job. I disagree with that wholeheartedly. I don't think Ben Johnson's going to be foaming out the mouth to go up to Dallas. So you got to be able to work with Dak Prescott. This guy has worked with quarterbacks a lot. I know that Kevin O'Connell's the guy in Minnesota. Josh McCown is right there in Sam Darnold's ear the whole time. It's not like he's just like some quarterback coach walking around. He's right there talking to him the whole time. I think he deserves a lot of credit for that.

I would hire Josh McCown. Another name we haven't mentioned, but I could see Jerry thinking of it, is Pete Carroll. Hasn't he kind of thrown his name out there recently? He interviewed with the Bears. Yeah, no, I don't hate McCown at all. I mean, it just doesn't get the people going like Jerry would.

Maybe not top three, but I'd still say this is top five, six. I don't know. People who grew up and all the coaches are our age or older and they still think of winning with the Cowboys as a really big deal. Pittsburgh, Green Bay,

I guess you could say Kansas City if you're factoring in just circumstance but what's better yeah Kingsbury though is interesting too because you're kind of taking him away from Daniels um and I don't know you know that that might not mean much but I know people look at him as a being a head coach before as kind of like a scarlet letter. But, I mean, he's battle-tested. He's a battle-tested guy, and you're kind of – you're not only bringing him in. He also likes attention, and I think he can deal with crap. Like, that's another thing that you have to do. Like, he likes attention.

He can deal with crap. He can work with offenses, and you're taking him away from basically the toast of the NFL right now and the toast of the division. I think he would fit perfectly here because he doesn't – he's going to stay hands off the defense. And, yeah, I'd love the front office to handle that. And, you know, he'll just do his offensive thing and kind of be the guy walking around being all Cliffy. Give me Cliff and Salah and let's go.

I mean – Cliff Kingsbury would be the perfect dumb zone guest, by the way. The Cliff Kingsbury weekly would be elite. If we could get that done. We've had him in studio in the past, a long time ago. How would rank who y'all would want based on guests? Let's just throw Dion to the side.

If I said y'all were getting a weekly with a head coach, what would y'all's top three be? Belichick. For Dan, it's Belichick. Rex Ryan. Dan Campbell. Okay, Rex Ryan. Rex Ryan would be number one if we're throwing Deion out.

John Gruden. John Gruden would be two. That'd be sick. And yeah, Cliff. Certainly Cliff. Cliff would be that next part. How about Nick Saban? Alabama Jones.

Alabama Jones. He's on the list here. Way down. This is fun. Way down the list. It is kind of fun. So, yeah, I don't think anybody – every game was a blowout. Philly was pretty close throughout.

I think that's a deceiving final score. It is and it isn't. It was close-ish, but it definitely felt – you could feel how much better Philadelphia, just from a talent standpoint, is than Green Bay, especially Green Bay banged up. I don't think Jordan Love's three interceptions are getting as much attention as Justin Herbert's three interceptions.

Four. Four interceptions, sorry. He had three interceptions all year, right? Yeah, three and then four in the game, yeah. And then four in the game. That's a tough one for me. Yeah, tough one for you from Friday, talking about how great he was. Yeah, I said, hey, this guy on any given day

could be the best quarterback in the league. And I still believe that. It's true. But that's a biggest game of his career. And to come out and play the worst game of your career. The Texans deserve credit because they were all over them. No, they deserve a lot of credit. And I think – well, you tell us, Landry.

To me, it's one of the biggest surprises of the weekend is that game. Just that Houston kind of under – would you say underperformed all year? At least to our early expectations. Yeah, I would say so. I mean, they're definitely a defensive team. I will say that Justin Herbert is kind of the kind of quarterback that D'Amico Ryans can make look stupid. Josh Allen had the lowest passer rating of his career early in the season.

They were kind of banged up at receiver. But this is actually the first time that the Texans front seven has been healthy all year. They didn't have linebacker Christian Harris. He didn't play a lot. Aziz Alshire was suspended. And now they have like five or six guys they can just rotate. So they made him very uncomfortable.

The result that happened, I think, is the most surprising, but it was kind of one of those games where I could have seen it going either way. But I definitely didn't anticipate the Chargers getting roughed up as much as they did. But the Texans do have a superpower at the front seven, which if you're going to make a run whether it's the jets with rex ryan or the the jags in 2017 with like a flawed offense which the texans have that's

that's really the recipe is is get after the quarterback and they they did that yeah any any if you can get a quarterback under severe, we've talked about it for a long time, that is the way to do things. Boys, I looked across the whole weekend. Yeah, boy, he was – if you look at 37 dropbacks, he had 19 under pressure and 18 kept clean. Yeah, and you wonder, like, are they going to be allowed to do that to my homes? I was talking about this today on the TV station.

Oh. Hey, hey. You might be talking about it again on a TV station. This could be on DZ TV tonight. Whoa. Well, it should be. It should be. Channel 27.

Tune in, folks. This belongs, like, after 10 p.m like on on some channel like this is this just screams that but but i don't think you're going to be able to rough up my homes the way you rough up herbert and i'm not i'm not trying to be like the referee guy like i think the way the way in which they were abusing him and there were a couple times where they slammed him to the turf i think they'll find some way to throw a flag oh here we go on my home so i'm serious like i'm serious like i'm just like that's just that's just kind of the package of playing against the chiefs i think the

craziest thing about the chiefs that i think is interesting is i don't think they've peaked like i don't i don't think they've peaked despite the fact they've lost one game like they haven't had hollywood brown all season long i'm taking the over on his yardage, no matter what the number is. I haven't even seen it drop yet. Whatever it is, I'm taking the over. They haven't had a healthy Pacheco. Travis Kelsey's kind of been banged up. They just got DeAndre Hopkins in the middle of the season.

And then they have Xavier Worthy. Like the Chiefs have not even like offensively, I don't even think they began to peak. And that's going to be the scary thing is you're talking about a team that we thought had no skill position guys early in the season. And they're fully healthy. Like, they're fully healthy. And I think it's kind of a problem.

Yeah, and I think, well, this is a very, this is not like an X's and O's thing. But this feels like one of the first times where I really feel like America will actually be rooting for the Texans. Do you guys sense Chiefs hate out there in general? It's just inevitable. Chiefs fatigue. Chiefs fatigue. Chiefs fatigue, but I don't know that America will be rooting

for the Texans to beat them. I think we want to see the Chiefs in the AFC Championship game against what you could maybe argue is the Super Bowl is like next weekend anyway. Yeah. With the Bills. I don't feel Chiefs hate as much as I do like Cowboys hate when they were good or even Patriots hate. And I guess it was a longer time, but I just don't...

Are they really that hateable? They're not in your face. I love them, but you get the T-Swift. Yeah, Kelsey. Jackson Mahomes. Brittany Mahomes. Chiefsaholic. Did y'all watch the Chiefsaholic doc? Dude, I did. We didn't talk about it on the show because...

Dan, this is right up your alley. This is one of the best docs that they've had in a while. Where is that? It is good, but I think it's just called Chiefsaholic. No, but where? Amazon. Yeah, it's incredible. It is nuts.

We followed the story pretty closely as it was happening, so I didn't learn a ton, but it is worth it. We did get to follow him post-bail. That was the crazy thing, and we learned about his gambling problem, how he's basically stacking up $150K on bets. Yeah. Rob a bank, go to the game, bet on the next game. And the funniest part is when he's out on bond,

they're watching the Super Bowl with him, and he wins like $200,000 with an ankle monitor on. And then he cuts the – And he's like, I won. And that's when he runs. Cut this off. He's ankle monitor on and then he cuts and he's like i won he runs they're like this is a threat to run because he might win these bets and the crazy thing is he has all these fans still that are still like supporting him just because of his internet it's it's a good one it is a really good one see yeah i don't know how america would be the the three peat thing never been done could be the chiefs the first time to do it this could be the three-peat thing. Never been done. Could be the Chiefs' first time to do it. This could be, you know, that could be something fun to root for.

Lamar, I think that could be something fun to root for as, you know, could he finally win the big one, all that kind of stuff. Buffalo in general I feel like people love. Fun to root for because of Buffalo and their Buffalo. And they got to the Super Bowl so often in the past four years in a row. And now could they, you know, do that? Yeah, maybe the Texas thing was a bad point. Obviously, Dan Campbell, that'd be fun to root for.

Oh, yeah. If you're talking NFC, I could see. Detroit. No, yeah. So the AFC is loaded, obviously. But as far as fun stories to root for uh going forward who are y'all rooting for i root for lamar i've never seen the goalpost moved so much on someone from like the levels of hate for lamar i just want him i just want him to win a super bowl like really really badly but

well he's got to get the title game first well see there it there it is right you probably wanted to move him to wide receiver before the game. No, I just, yeah, let's hand him every MVP we can, but yet he can't win a playoff game. Okay. No one was complaining about Peyton Manning when he was winning MVPs and couldn't get it done. There's different energy with Lamar Jackson for whatever reason.

He can't be a quarterback. Then he can't win in the regular season. Then he can't. It's a system. Then he wins in another system, and now all of a sudden, he's just getting this treatment. I don't know you should play the race

card on Lamar. I do remember that about Peyton Manning. I remember he can't win the big one. Even when he was here and they were 10-0 playing the Cowboys when Parcells was a coach, he lost Thanksgiving Day or something like that.

And it was like, see? Big game. Big nationally televised game. Peyton Manning will fold. That's when the 1920s reporter guy talked to him. I don't think it's as much race. I think it's just dug in. Quarterbacks make idiots of us all.

I don't think any position has made us look as foolish. I don't know that people thought that Jaden Daniels was going to be this. But it just does seem like Lamar, like the bar just keep – maybe it's just he's hiring the expectations of him and I'm just a little bit defensive about him. I just find myself rooting for him. I don't know if Jaden Daniels will be in the league in five years. He's falling back on the RG3 thing.

It's not crazy. Dude, his body – He can't protect himself. Yeah, he doesn't protect himself and his body thing. It's not crazy. Dude, his body. He can't protect himself. Yeah, he doesn't protect himself and his body type. He's just small. Yeah, it's true, which makes the fact that 94 in red last night got stiff-armed in the backfield on the play of the game by a guy who looks like me at the free-throw line getting called Kermit or pipe cleaners when I was in 10th grade.

You don't want to get stiff-armed by a guy that you're like, I don't know if you'll be in the league in five years. You're so small. But I did see a tweet yesterday that kind of touches on what you guys are talking about. Somebody just said something to the effect of, oh, here it is. The NFL playoffs are a great reminder that there are really only like five good quarterbacks at any given time in the NFL,

and there is an entire media industrial complex dedicated to making you think otherwise, selling you hope. It's a fact because the debate you were talking about Herbert, like the debate and I naturally just pushed back was, well, if CJ beats Justin Herbert, this was just kind of just something that someone brought up. Then he's a top five quarterback in the AFC. And I was like, huh?

I don't know about that. And then you look at the quarterbacks in the AFC and you're like, I mean, I guess that they're battling out for that fifth spot. It's kind of fascinating. The NFC is even crazier, you know? Who is the best? Right now in the NFC? Yeah.

I guess it's Goff, right? Is it Goff? Daniels is playing as good as anyone. Is it Goff? Is it Daniels? Is it Stafford? Is it Goff? Daniels is playing as good as anyone. Is it Goff? Is it Daniels? Is it Stafford? Is it Hurts? They're all just pretty good, but all capable of having really bad days.

In a way that you didn't see Brady or Manning at their peak, the best in the NFL, didn't have games like what you see from Jalen Hurts every now and then. Yeah, I'm trying to think. Baker, honestly, up until last night, I could have said Baker. Yeah. And even last night for most of the game. Lamar Jackson, though, is a very interesting study

because he obviously was a free agent, now restricted, correct? You would have had to offer a couple of first-round picks and the biggest contract ever and all that kind of stuff. But quarterback being what it is, where a ton of teams were trying to trade forward Deshaun Watson, so you think the Browns, obviously the Browns gave up a ton to get him, and the capper is the guaranteed contract.

No other team was willing to do that. But, you know, it could very easily be Atlanta that had given up three first rounders and plus some and then signed him to like a deal that was almost as big. But he ended up going to Cleveland. Did you see the news on him too? Supposedly re-injured himself while rehabbing. Everything I see related to that story, I figure there are two to three ulterior motives here.

I think he doesn't want to come back. They don't want him back. Basically, they have a team of lawyers on each side sitting in a room like, how do we do this? yeah how to make everybody look okay in this kind of yeah uh but lamar jackson i think is unbelievable like his body type is much different as far as he until you see him like right after a jayden daniels highlighted i feel like you don't really get it lamar's a dick mfr-er. Right. And then Derrick Henry, who was a free agent this

offseason. Now, had the Cowboys signed him, and they really could have easily, two years, eight million a year. That's what he got. And he's unbelievable. Do they do the innovative stuff that you see Baltimore

doing? Do they direct snap to him and put Dak out wide, which is something I saw over the weekend? No. And then Derrick Henry all of a sudden takes that for 30 yards. Like, he's unbelievable. He's still unbelievable. No, he is. He's a home run.

But even if they had just hit a double, I mean, Mixon had over 100 yards and almost five yards a carry on Saturday. He was available. Got a little less than Henry. And it's not like – he had a good – if Joe Mixon were on the Cowboys this year, their season with Rico would have looked very different. Yes.

Rico as a backup? Or as a compliment? Mix him up. Yeah yeah the Derrick Henry thing is interesting because he's just a physical freak and he also has the thread of the best running quarterback of all time there so I don't even know

what you really do in the situation if you're trying to stop Derrick Henry it's kind of amazing that the Cowboys didn't at least get in on this market. I think the only team that won this weekend that didn't delve into this favorable running back market was Buffalo, and they already have James Cook. And they even drafted another running back. But every team that won this week,

and it was a large part of the reason outside of Washington. Eckler wasn't like a huge part of what they did during the season. He was kind of banged up, but they got him. But every single one of these teams, this favorable running back market, the polarizing running back market, they all got into it. That's a good point, really. It really is, yeah. If Saquon's not at Philadelphia,

we're sitting here talking about how Jalen Hurts says, man, what a bad contract that is. That's terrible. And they got Saquon, and he's arguably the MVP of the league. But everybody, even good teams, like the really, really good teams, they partook in that running back market, which I think it kind of says something. Man, I think you've got to throw Eckler in there.

I mean, he was hurt, but he was very important last night. Yeah. Through the air and on the ground. Yeah, I mean, they immediately – he was immediately a big part of stuff. So, it's interesting. And the scary thing from Jerry's perspective is, like, is he now going to overdo it? Like, in a buyer's market running back, like, is he now going to overdo it? Like in a buyer's market running back,

like, is he now going to overdo it? Like, are we talking about signing someone and bringing in Gentry and just trying to have like the best running back group of all time? Cause I don't, I don't think you're ever going to find as, as favorable of a running back market as that was.

That was insane. And you have Derek Henry right there working out, pulling sleds or whatever the hell he pulls, houses in Dallas. Yes. Same agent. They are always behind the pack. So, yes, your prediction is a good one. Well, they got Zeke.

They did get Zeke, and he looks better than he has in years. We talked about this yesterday on the stream, but really, really funny that the Chargers signed him and then didn't make him active for the game. Yeah, because then they saw. They got close. Okay, that film was right. Yeah, that's tough.

Are you all ready for Zeke to retire as a Cowboy? It's going to be more comfortable. Oh, my. The one day. Oh, he's got to do it one day. That is fantastic, yeah. There's been nobody who has gotten more favors from Jerry in their entire life than Zeke,

from paying him probably at the wrong time, drafting him early. Maybe that Alex Davis girl, Alexander Davis, the daughter. But other than that. She's got a little something. Yeah. No, you're right, and it's crazy. We talk about this all the time.

I mean, we do hear from guys that play there that he's a good teammate or that they like playing with him. But you can't constantly say, like, this guy's the hardest – or they don't say hardest worker, but they say a consummate professional, all he cares about is winning, and then be late so much that McCarthy's like, dude, I've got to suspend you for a game. You think McCarthy wants to do that? Of course not.

And then not even make him gut it out. He should have gotten 30 carries in the final game of the season. Like, I'm giving him the ball 50 times. Make your son smoke the whole pack? Yeah, he's going 50 carries just the whole time in that game. And you let him get out of the situation when it gets bad. That was – Jerry loves Zeke. It's going to be a big ceremony.

He might end up in the ring of honor while we're talking. He might? No way. Dude. Hey. Did you think they'd bring him back this year? His numbers are pretty impressive. Okay.

Notes I wanted to just make just from throughout the playoffs. The game you were at or watching, Dicker the kicker, that the blocked extra point that he thought was a pass attempt. Did he bat it down? Yeah.

He bat it down and batted it right down to a player who could just run it back for two points. Pittsburgh losing its sixth straight postseason game. So, obviously, if that was here, you'd be yelling for Mike Tomlin to be fired. Yeah, that's my idea. Are they thinking of that? Or is it the fact that they haven't really had a good quarterback in some time,

but they keep making the playoffs in the very tough competitive AFC? I think you've got to give them that and just imagine if they actually did have a quarterback. Could you imagine if they would have been in on signing Lamar Jackson when he was a free agent? I think you give them that, but I think organizationally, it kind of stinks. It's the mediocre treadmill that Mark Cuban used to talk about where it's almost better to bottom out. From a coaching standpoint,

he deserves credit, but from an organizational standpoint, you're never drafting that high. Your ceiling's limited, but your floor is a little bit higher it's it's kind of an interesting spot to be in with him because his teams do fight their ass off but they're never bad enough to where it's like how do we get this quarterback how are we going to

figure it out they're kind of in no man's land the shine really got off them as this year went on though and their seat their schedule got tougher they They were extremely exposed. They tried it with Pickett, right? That was like the best, really the only shot they've taken. A.J. Brown on the sideline reading a book. Yeah, so I've seen – he showed somebody the book, right? Inner Excellence. Was it that he was upset at a lack of targets

and he needs to read some inspirational passages? I mean, he says no, but – Well, first of all, just having a book on the sideline, I mean, it's a very wide receiver thing. Oh, my God. Absolutely. It's very C-team. It's very C-team middle school.

Like, kid who doesn't play. You might expect, yeah, yeah. You might expect hey, give me one of those tablets so I can see what the defense is doing here. How can I get open? No. It's something so I can get my mental right. There's two takes on it. One is Landry's C-team.

That makes sense. But the wide receiver thing, it's like, it's look team that makes sense but the wide receiver thing it's like it's look at me right it's Gordon reading that book at the NBA finals Gordon read that book a hundred times Gordon's reading that book so you'll say Gordon's reading that book which is the same thing AJ Brown was doing it's very LeBron

LeBron Malcolm X he still hadn't gotten past page one you know that the camera's going to be on me and they'll come look at you. They'll come ask you what it was about. You can show them the book. And it's like, I get it if words mean something to you in the moment. Yeah, you're very smart.

It's highlighted. Yeah. Cool, dude. Zane Gonzalez, we were all talking about this while doing the stream last night. So he kicks that game winner, doinked it. Man, so close. And I mean, I've never seen someone look more nervous,

by the way. So we've got that. I don't think you'll be able to see it, Landry. But Danny believes he'll be able to play this for us. His hair. So it starts with the hair. This is right before the game-winning field goal. You can play it whenever, Danny, and I'll just vamp until you get it. Okay, so yeah, we have him here.

This is his shoes, actually. This is him messing with his shoes pregame. He takes off his socks and puts them back on probably seven times. Shoe off, shoe back on, straighten out the sock. You know if you have a little bump in your sock? Sure, yeah. And you're like, oh, that's a little

bit weird. I'll just live with it. But for him, no. That is insane levels of OCD. And, again, I think they showed this after the fact. Like, oh, we had this in the can. We didn't know we'd need it. But they did need it after we saw him doing his hair thing on the sidelines. So that was the other video, and it's just – yeah, here you go.

Yeah, it's like, oh, hold on. As he's walking onto the field. Right. Yeah, he is just. He barely has any hair. Yeah, he's got Garrett-level length hair. Yeah, he's like, move it over. Helmet barely on. Six different kickers. The sixth is.

Landry, so you can see it. Yeah. Yeah, he just keeps brushing, I don't know, brushing his hair as if he has really long hair. He's got to keep it out of his eyes, but he doesn't. He did it about seven, eight times and then went in and

barely made that field goal. To me, it looks like, and I guess maybe he actually does have some level of OCD, that or he's on cocaine. Because that's the only time I've ever seen anybody acting like that. They kind of justified them not kicking field goals.

I was getting a little bit frustrated with them on fourth and two, just not kicking field goals. It might have kind of justified it. Do y'all remember the Rangers pitcher? This was at Arlington State. This was a long-ass time ago, named Todd Burns. Do y'all remember him? I remember the name.

So he used to, like, grab like grab his head like on the back end of his career it just throughout throughout pitching he would be doing that that kind of reminded me of that yeah joey gallo had a little bit of that right which he got mad at me for mentioning but apparently uh i was just like hey well the telling of it that's been captured by history is that i was like hey joey gall, what's wrong with your weird, stupid face? Yeah, you make weird faces. What's up with that? And he was like, actually, I have a condition. And it was very awkward. But no,

I mean, I was like, hey, are you aware that you get memed a lot, you know, for some of your facial expressions? Hate to see you interview Muhammad Ali on the back end. Good lord, Jake. Sit down here with the star of Back to Our Future. What's going on with you? Or Back to Our Future.

Back to the Future. You got something weird. So did Gallagher get, did he kind of flex on you? He's kind of a meathead, isn't he? He's a super cool guy. Yeah, yeah, he's a cool dude, but he's a cool meathead. He bowed up a little bit. He enjoyed putting Jake in that trap.

Yeah. Yeah. But Hey, look, the commanders move on. Y'all find yourself rooting against the commanders. Like does the, I can feel the Eagle say the commanders,

it's a hard team to unlock, to not like, no, they got new ownership. Yeah. They're fun. They're not. And TQ cliff.

Yeah. Ricky quarterback. I mean, I was rooting against him last night. you've got to root for Baker. But, you know, that's part of the Baker thing. Nobody roots for Baker. He's up against the whole world. Eight and a half dogs on the road indeed.

You know, I did see this. Oh, what is it? Eight and a half, which is even bigger than Texans Chiefs. I bet that's going to go up, too. What's Texans Chiefs? Seven and a half right now. Yeah, it went down. Started at eight, seven and a half.

Something weird is going on there. I would take the Chiefs. I mean, I'll be honest, but something weird is going on there. I saw this note, too. As far as, you know, the Cowboys, we don't want to pay for this because that's going to hurt you in the future. Like, they've got all kinds of excuses why they do or don't do things. Sure.

There were nine teams that had over $60 million in dead cap money this year. Six of them made the playoffs. But I thought it was like an automatic you're out. Like, there's a rule state you can't be in if you have over 50. Six of them made the playoffs. But I thought it was like an automatic you're out. There's a rule state you can't be in if you have over 50. Broncos, 85 million. Why? I mean, I don't think that's good, but also.

Oh, my goodness. The Russell Wilson contract. Yeah. Vikings, Bills, Packers, Eagles, and Tampa all had over 60 million in dead money. All the good NFC teams. So they are spending cash over cap to build better rosters. And maybe if you are hoping

that the Cowboys follow the lead of others, which they do at certain times, maybe that will make the Cowboys realize they should do that. But unlikely. Well, I would root for the Texans going forward, Landry, but I have a friend on the other team.

Oh, look at this. Who's your friend? Patrick Mahomes? Yeah, he's a quarterback. Yeah, okay. There you go. You could have just said I'm Patrick Mahomes? Yeah, he's a quarterback. Yeah, okay. There you go. You could have just said, I'm a Mahomes guy. Well, they filmed a commercial together.

I saw it. It was damn good. Good grab. He's caught a pass. Kind of could have stayed on your feet, I thought. He definitely could have. See, that's the problem with bringing that up is it's the coolest thing that ever happened to me,

and it's tied in with a very embarrassing thing that Blake will never forget, and apparently Landry either. Kind of looked like Smalls from Sandlot catching that first one, man, honestly. If we're being honest, it looked a lot like the football version of Smalls from Sandlot, if we're being completely honest. And Landry, he has the gall to blame it on shoes because his shoes were too big. Hey, did you guys know Landry's appearance today is brought to you by Fairleast?

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40% alcohol by volume. Distilled from corn. Copyright 2025. Crafted to be savored responsibly. Here's Jay with the Dumb Zone News. How do you like that? I like it quite a bit. You guys keeping track of what's going on over in Keller?

Yeah, splitting into, what, two school districts? They're trying. Do you know about this, Dan? A little bit from So Shmead. Yeah. Like it seems there's nefarious goings on. Well, this is a world that I don't want to. How old is your spawn?

How old is your kid, Landry? 16 months. 16 months. You're a ways away. He's still in the months phase. Yeah, yeah. When does that end? Two?

Two. One and a half? I think it does end at two, but it feels weird to me. Like Carter is now two and two months, but when we meet another family and they're like, oh, our kid's two, but I know they're about to be three, I want to be like, actually, he's only two and two months. He's the same height, but he's actually bigger. Yeah. He's younger.

You know what I mean? He's doing better than your kid. Yeah. I just got to let you know that. But no. My daughter's 240 months. Oh, wow. Yeah.

It's a lot of months, bro. It is a lot of months. 20 years, right? 20 years right 20 years but the point i was very good the point i was gonna make is just when you talk about social media and a story like this this is dude this is posters heaven the school board the pta this sort of thing if you think people have hot opinions about like the national general election wait till there's a controversial issue regarding the school board. Facebook servers can't handle it.

And that's how I was made aware of this, actually, is a listener of ours being like, go check out these Facebook groups. So in Keller, their board president says that this discussion about a split is simply a reshaping.

He says that, like other districts across the state, there are unprecedented challenges facing KISD. Other districts are closing campuses, cutting programs, and he says, why don't we just reshape it? Now, the details are not publicly confirmed, but the rumors are basically poories over there, us over here. We're splitting you down 377

which ironically literally the track the other side of the track which is the good side my family actually lives in Keller my mom and stepdad they actually went down

that side of the woods so they're kind of I don't think they're invested in this But they're right there I don't know what side of the tracks though I think I think it would be east Of 377 is Considered the good part right Okay so you're going to put the Indians on the west side of the tracks

Uh Let me look at this Keller High School Is on the west side of the tracks uh i would have let me look at this keller high school is right is on the east side oh because they're the keller indians so the indians get to stay on the east side yes and what's gonna be the west side uh rich i would think it would be fossil rich you can't have the cowboys and the indians the same school district, can you? It would be fun. Recall the west side, the Redskins? Okay, yeah.

Redskins and Indians. So the discussion will continue Thursday, the school board, during an executive session. Those meetings not open to the public. And that was like a lot of what I was reading about on Facebook. It's like, hey, they're meeting in private. They're trying to cook all this up. They're denying that this is even happening.

The trustees, two of them, have voiced their opinion saying they are blindsided and shocked. Decisions of this magnitude require a blank debate. Go, Dan. Gosh, darn it. I don't know. It's the size of the debate Robust Oh I'm sorry Community input and careful consideration

Robust really only gets used for debate And maybe budget But yeah this one's pretty obvious If you look at the economics And the demographics of the schools In question and the schools in question and the neighborhoods in question so the thought is that then they will the school on the east side will be nicer and it's just a smaller version of robin hood right or whatever they call the texas state thing

we had some of your funds are subjected to being shared across the state. Well, all of your funds within district are shared, right? So they're like, we're in this district. We've got this area over here, this area over here. Why are we giving them money? It's like, well, because we're in the same, same school district. The thing I love about Facebook is they still use like memes from five or 10 years ago. Oh yeah.

about Facebook is they still use memes from five or ten years ago. Oh, yeah. Somebody posted the I'm in a complicated relationship with Keller Independent School District. That was ten years ago. That's a banger. Is your mom a big poster, Landry?

Is she Facebook mom? Hell no. Absolutely not. She is kind of like a she kind of overstocks a little bit like where she she knows details about more people than she probably should but nah she's not she's not a date yeah it's like she knows the background and all that type she doesn't creep smartly either so you bring the wife home for the first time oh i saw you're from here here

here it's like yeah okay well you could have just like known that and like asked the had the conversation so yeah she's she's definitely a facebook stalker but not a poster is yours no no she is not at all now she is aware of it because of her business but i think she chills out on risk like if there's a negative comment she doesn't take that well yeah but I like about you or about no about like her company does she ever read like what like maybe like listeners will say about you and get pissed I don't think so she just kind of nut she's just kind of numb to that now and she knows it yeah yeah not that it's like a frequent thing I just know that like some loved ones are like I can't believe it it's you know yeah it's like a frequent thing i just know that like some loved ones are like i can't believe that it's you know yeah it was like now what did happen was uh my dad got really into um message boards when my brother was playing college football oh man that was a volatile situation that's dangerous

yeah people will never understand the art of the old school message board People will never understand the art of the old school message board. It was the best thing in the world. God, it was so good. Oh, I know you were a Shaggy Bevo or a GoHorn. Yeah, hookum.com. Oh, yeah, like the recruiting. And that was when we didn't know much about recruiting,

so the speculation was just so high. Fire Mac Brown, Greg Davis sucks, like all of that. Like that was the prime. You know what I was thinking about the other day that for some reason makes me think about you? This is inside really only for like five of us, but I was watching the Texas game the other night, and I was missing Mad Dog. Man, Mad Dog on the sidelines,

leading him out the tunnel with the handlebar. I feel like he got a bad rap. Mad Dog was the man. Texas used to have a strength and conditioning coach, Dan, that looked like Mr. T. It's much bigger. He was huge. He looked like Mark Henry and Mr. T in one.

Yeah. And he was a black guy, obviously. He would wear sunglasses and he had the handlebar mustache. And he was the get back coach. He was basically like Dom. Where is he now? He left with Mac, I'm pretty sure. He always had the shirt that was so small.

He's probably wearing a medium. He's 300 pounds. It was awesome. He got fat after a while, though. It did seem like he was getting a little bit more soft in the stomach on the back end of the Mac days. Man, he was just one of those attractions.

I love seeing Dom down there. He's got a headset. He does. He was walking there. What is that, too? Who knows? Touchdown, brothers. This is always a fun one. The rejected personalized license plates in Texas.

Okay. More than 2,300 rejections in 2024. Are you grandfathered in? If you already have one Like if I tried to get chappy Just because I know there's Fierce For dragon

But just for everything I saw somebody had It was something that was supposed to say twins but it was t-v-v-i-n-s because obviously they couldn't get twins okay so like i just wondered if people are sitting god that's gay yeah like to be like oh i had twins what can i do next but right but you know like tony trying to get into into the lottery for Dancing with the Stars tickets or something. Yeah. He's, like, refreshing every two seconds.

I wonder if you already have Chappie, if you just are grandfathered in to get Chappie. Go on with the story. No, no, no. I'm saying, yeah, I get what you're saying. But can you do, now that you know that's approved, can you work off that? Like, can you do Chappie 10 or something? I don't know. What would yours, can you work off that? Like can you do chappy 10 or something? I don't know. What would yours be if you could get anything?

Dude, it would probably have to be after my favorite Premier League team. I'd do hot piece because I want people to drive up to see if I'm a hot piece. Yeah. Because don't you do that sometimes if you're – well, you probably don't. No, but I mean there is a level of intrigue when you see one. But it's a certain, yeah. Like, I got to see who's driving this car. You got to check it out for sure.

Especially when they have, like, if you honk, I shoot or something like that. Like, the bumper stickers, like, all that. You just kind of want to see, what does this guy look like? Like, pull up to him at the light. I'm reloading while you're honking, whatever that. That's a good one. That one is. You're like, I got to see what does this guy look like like pull up to him at the light i'm reloading while you're honking whatever that that's a good one that one is you're like i gotta see i gotta see what this cat looks like usually looks the same i will say that but but gotta see what they look like hot wrist i might go with i was actually thinking that when you said that yeah um i don't know like if i if like blke sux was available or something. Like if I could just – here we go.

Just something so that people know like there's a guy who hates Blake. Honestly, I've never thought about it. Again, to reference my dad in college football, Chappie was not his first license plate PL. What did he have? He had two lanes, seven. Didn't really think it through. You know, as we were talking about the message board thing.

Oh, because now everybody knows. Yeah, I mean, the most. The quarterback's dad. Let's egg this car. If you think the backup quarterback is the most popular guy in town, well, wait until the team is terrible. And it's fun when you're the backup quarterback. But the fact is the team is terrible,

and probably every quarterback is going to suck. And your time will come. And the fan base will want him replaced. And they will see your car out there that says two lane seven. Never had a KTCK son played to my recollection. But let's go through a couple here that Fox News highlights. Fox 4 News. Some of them will be very obvious. They got rejected. Let's see here.

I'm scared. 82 attempts at some version of Hawk Tua. Okay. We're not doing Hawk Tua? No. 82. That's significant. It really is.

A lot of Trump? Why not Hawk Tua? I guess because it references oral sex? Or it's copyrighted or something? Or it's taken. Or it's taken. Right? Yeah, maybe.

No, because that came out this year. These are rejected, yeah that came out these are rejected yeah yeah these are rejected so um yeah so it's it's indecent vulgar derogatory uh sounds like my blake one is out that's a direct negative instruction or command to a person um anything related to drugs a pattern that could be misread by law enforcement. And you can actually just go to the website and submit to find out, I guess. How about DZTV? That's not a bad idea.

Yeah, y'all should do something dumb zone. I bet y'all could get that. Why don't we all three do car reps for like six months? Yeah, y'all go first. I said we all three. What do you mean? What is a car wrap? Like you got a QR code on there.

Oh, I was laughing so hard about this over the weekend. The car wrap is just like, that's another thing that we looked into. Some friends did it for money in college. I wonder if any listener would do that. You're already driving. What if we paid, what would we pay? Free sub?

We will give you a free sub if you put on a car wrap. We'll give you an annual if you'll do it for a negotiable a month. Six weeks? How about the whole time? The whole year. It's worth more than that. Is it? Well, yeah.

You have a free sub as long as you have it on. We'll give them a VIP. Okay. Well, let's work on this. That was something that they did that you could get money for in college. It's like, all right, I'm already driving. I'll put the hero place on my car.

I would have absolutely done that. I had friends who did it. Did you have friends who gave plasma? Oh, yeah. Dan was a plasma guy. I did it once. You were? Just once?

It was a terrible, terrible experience. Plasma. Just the cold. was a terrible, terrible experience. Plasma, semen. Just the cold. They take your blood, but then they put it back in you. And it feels really cold going back in. Dude, I knew a girl who did that so much in college that by the end of the semester, it looked like she had gangrene. Or she was like a junkie.

Like her whole arm. But the best way to get money do that then call your grandma and tell her you just gave plasma and she's like oh you must be struggling here's more send you a couple hundred bucks no but the car wrap thing i was laughing about was uh there's like a really quaint old um bakery in grapevine it's right there by main street it's been there for a pretty long time just nice it's a nice little chill place and uh i was driving by there the other day and leaving leaving their parking lot was a cyber truck that was wrapped with a bread house everyone's using cyber trucks now to to do this yeah and i mean i've seen them for like a really aggressive remodeling company or like a tactical plumbing and all this stuff i'm like okay it's a

guy with a big dick who wants you to know about his business or whatever this place is like again run by old people and it's very chill and it's like what do we get the most aggressive douchebag car ever to sell muffins? It does demand attention though. The Cybertruck still demands enough attention to where it's very very productive. You still find yourself just drawn to that car. It hadn't really worn off. And I'm telling you guys

about it. I wouldn't have done that for a Corolla. I'd like to drive one. There must be something to it. Yeah, it's partially status, right? You're just letting people know, hey, I got the cool thing. That's got to be a big part of it. Yeah, I haven't heard anyone say it's not the best thing ever,

which makes me think it's just not genuine feedback. I feel like Dan would give a fair assessment of the of the experience i'm sure you could set that up somehow it seems like they're becoming more and more frequent they're very prevalent yeah well we're in the hot spot to just drive around the metroplex i could tell you that this back here is about as uh there's not a ton in mesquite yeah yeah here's a photo they showed, a rejected one here. It's just my H8RS. You can't reference your haters.

I know that's tough for Landry. Here's one. One and then the word felony. That's a warning. That should be good. I know. That's what I was thinking. This one, four, the digit four, F-S, y'all.

So for fuck's sake, y'all, you can't do that. There's a bunch of them that are C-K-N-B-U-T-T. Chicken butt? I assume that means chicken butt, which should be okay, but perhaps the guy at text.red cockin' butt. Boy, that's disgusting. I feel like they're way too harsh on these grades. I know. I know. How about this one?

I was expecting a lot worse when you said this. Totally. Someone just went straight up with dumb guy. And that got rejected. That would hurt our dumb zone thoughts. Yeah, but DZZ though. Yeah, that could play. I don't know.

I just... Oh, here's a funny one. EV sucks. Hey. Assuming that you're not just against Everton, the soccer club, but it's really more that you just want to let people know that gasoline rules. Gasoline rules. F around, find out

type stuff. I don't know. The alphanumeric pattern 69 is prohibited unless used with the full year 1969 or combination in reference to a Mustang, or excuse me, a vehicle. So you could probably have like MSTNG69.

This sounds like the government censoring me, telling me I can't do things. Without a doubt. What the hell? I thought this was a state of freedom. So you can't get like 69, bro? No, I don't think so. Dude, that'd be so prevalent. I love 69.

Yeah, I don't know what – I would never do this, so it's hard for me to answer Landry's question about what I would do. I would never do this, ever, unless I lost a bet. What would yours be, Landry? Something like, I don't know, like Brian Boddicker hat tip or reference or something? 33BB. 33BBD Bill Duncanville. Is that him?

Something like that, yeah. I don't know. I wouldn't put my name. That's always been a little bit. You could do locker room like LCKRRM or something if you couldn't get the vowels. Yeah, I don't know. I've never really –

you had friends in high school who would do it like their name or something like that. It never was cool to me. It never seemed like something that was that cool. You mean it wasn't cool when one of your former coworkers had his show name as a license plate? And then the show name got changed and he never changed it? It's got to be tough. Tell me what you're saying.

Yeah, I'm trying to figure this one out too. It always cracked me up that John Jock Taylor had a license plate that said j-dub city and then his show name got changed and he kept the license plate for a while you have to you've paid for the year he is jj that's just that's that's on brand like he the the license plate is made for him i actually talked to him the other day he bought a porsche like on like cheap like uh i i forgot how much he got it like he he did that the the license plate is made for jock the selfie the creation of the selfie and the light and the and the license plate was made for him he's correct yeah that was the most that was the most only you understand reference that i've ever heard in my life for sure We're deep on him today.

And we'll wrap up with this. Have you guys seen the mugshot for former NFL player and for a brief time Cowboys defensive end Robert Quinn? Dude, yeah. He got messed up. Yeah. Let me see if I can show it to the camera here so Dan can see it. Can you see that from here?

Oh, okay. He's got scab face? What's the... Oh, okay. Like, he's got scab face. What's the deal? He was trying to leave the scene of an accident involving four cars. This happened late Friday, early Saturday. The fire department arrives on the scene. This is in South Carolina. Do you remember him, by the way?

Like, being here? Like, he came from the Rams and... Seems like a really short time, right? It was, but he was really good in a very short period of time. Did they trade him? I think they ended up just not bringing him

back. But he was a player here. Let's see. Yeah, he had a good year. He had 11 and a half sacks in 14 games in his one year in Dallas. What year was it? It was before Alden Smith? Yes, this was their first. Yes, but it was from the makers of Alden Smith.

Yeah, 2019, he had 11 and a half sacks in 14 games. Like, he went nuts. And then the Bears are like, what if we pay you? And then he did have a pretty good year in Chicago in 2011. But back to the story, yes, he is trying to leave the scene. Multiple people are seeing him around the crash site at the time. Yeah, he caused the accident. He's had four other, like he's had a DUI.

He's had an arrest after four vehicles were found, unoccupied vehicles found, damage in a subdivision that he lived in. And they just pieced all this together, I guess, through cameras to show that, yeah, he just smashed into a bunch of cars in a parking garage and then tried to leave. Officers asked Quinn to get out of the fill-in-the-blank. What kind of car was it? Does anybody want to play? Escalade.

No, but you're on the right track. It is a Dodge Challenger. Dang it. Quinn resisted by holding the door to the car. Police removed Quinn from the vehicle, And he was escorted to the ground Is in the police report That's a tough one I might need some help there

I need you to help me out there sir Yeah Escorted to the ground Can you help me get to the ground He was with a woman Officers interviewed that woman Who said they had met that night at g club okay which is a gentleman's club where she works earlier that night g club south carolina yeah man south carolina has some crazy clubs and

the only reason i know this is because jadavia and Clowney's dad got arrested at a strip club. And no lie, the building is smaller than any shack you've ever seen in your life. I don't even know how they even got the girls in there. But Jadavia and Clowney's dad, I guess he fell asleep and then there was an incident. South Carolina has some rough clubs. I'm looking at pictures of this one right now, and it's pretty small. G Club currently with a 3.6 Google review rating.

It's a good review, I bet. It's not bad. It's not bad. I've been to Clowney's Dad Club, and look at that one. It is crazy. And with that, Dan, Landry, Blake, there's your news. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe.

Oh, he was arrested for attempted murder? Yeah, yeah. And look at the club. His dad's name was Chili Bean. It was called Crazy Horse, and it's smaller than any school portable. This place is small. We have a couple of viewer mail birthdays before today in history. Dear Uncle F-Hole.

That's license plate denied. Yeah, for sure. Today I'm celebrating my son's fifth birthday, remembering Jake's rating of my daughter's name when she was born last year. He said her name sounded like a disease. That's not kind. That sounds like prehab, Jake. Need a rating on my son's name now. Nicholas Avery.

It's not bad. It's not bad. It's not bad. Is it because of Nicolas Cage? No. You don't accept it? But I just want to make sure he's not trying to do some sort of Steve Kerr thing and have the kid go by Nick A. Like when Steve Kerr named his kid Nick. More Blake.

Thank you, Blake. We'd like to hear a couple of drops by Blake. Oh, here's one of them he wanted. George Clooney. Okay.

You might have heard a little preview of that earlier. Leaders are Earth Grounding Shit, Five Minute Stranger, and Dutch. We're having his birthday

at a giant kid's place this weekend. Thanks for the suggestion from Devin. Again, I don't know my subscriber number because I'm not gay. Okay. Dear Gash Guzzler. Gash Gush Guzzler.

Monday is the 47th birthday of my good friend and DF Wesley. He hates the vaginal greetings that are now trending. What is that? What's happening on the internet that I don't know about? Oh, just these in general? Okay. His leaders are Jake going from unkempt to well-kempt, White Settlement Olympics, and Benjamin Wong White.

Don't know it. I am a local gastroenterologist. So if you need an expert on anything digestive or if you want to hear stories about all the weird stuff people have swallowed or shoved up their behinds, I am your man. From Eric Hill, MD. Okay. Let's get him on.

He sent his number. Talk butt stuff. You want to call him? It depends on what you think of the time here. If you want his number. He's right here. I'm looking at him. You want his number?

I thought by me not moving or asking for it. Oh, okay. What part of this whole thing here do you... Uncle Hotmail, it's the birthday of former bad radio intern and Ticket Weekend board op Josh Kerber. He is turning Nick Van Exel minus Jason Terry plus Clay Thompson. His leaders are Jake, CeeDee Lamb's shoulder, and Brandon Aubrey, 20-yard field goals.

That's a good dude right there. I said Nick Van Exel minus Jason Terry? Plus Klay? Yeah, so we're just arriving back to square one. It's a great bit we have here. Not a great bit. But Landry would actually love that bit. No, you're right.

No, I'm just trying to figure out. That feels like he's not even a teenager yet. P.S. I moved to New York last year and I work at the World Trade Center. You're not going to believe this, but there is a 9-11 memorial here just like the one in Grapevine. Thanks from

Day One DF Adam Weschler. They got one up there too huh yeah apparently they're that's copying grapevine crazy there's a 9-11 memorial in grapevine where's this at oh dude next time you're in town we'll take a built our whole a pilgrimage show about that yeah it's uh it's in front of a tex-mex restaurant uh and uh available for rent office space and the and available for rent office space. And the impetus behind it is simply that there's an airport there nearby. What month is it on our calendar?

I have a calendar. I don't know. Why don't you just flip through and see which one we randomly decided to put that on. I thought you really had a big way to do this. So the month of September, if you order the calendar at dumbzonemerch.com Can you see this, Landry? I can.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Unbelievable. We were in front of the Tex-Mex restaurant in the night. Do those guys look like they're forgetting or never? No. It's living on.

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Is that the last team that you're a real fan of? That's it, yeah. I figured so. Yeah. That sucked. Did you go? No, I did not. I avoided it.

Stayed here. Had to go to the Texans game the next day. So, yeah. That's an old man thing to do. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Looking ahead to tomorrow. Got to make sure I have my... That's what I was doing with the Shane concert on Saturday.

I was like, I got this stream tomorrow night. Dude, if I seem a little off today, it's because I tried to do kid birthday and comedy show on Saturday. I'll be feeling that for a couple days, to be honest, bro. That's making me happy. No, you're not alone. No, you're not alone. And it's kind of weird because the COVID expiration date has expired

where you can kind of back out of things and you can just say COVID for like a three or four year stretch. It's kind of gone. Now it's just dot baby. Yeah. Baby, daughter, wife. Dude, babies are great. Oh, yeah.

To get out of things, they're the best. Oh, yeah. Little kids are awesome. I knew there was a reason for having kids. Like my wife kept wanting kids and I couldn't figure out why. And then, yes, once you could just get out of anything because of kids. What a force field. This day in 1974, DFW International Airport officially opened.

It was called DFW Regional Airport. And then they changed that in 1985. On this day in 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge, fell into the Potomac while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing 78 people, including four motorists on the bridge. four passengers and one flight attendant survived. Man. That's good. So Dan's dream landry. They were in the bathroom running a... A gangbang mile high club.

Dan's dream is to be the lone survivor of a tragedy. Plane crash preferably. I wouldn't say a dream, but like... If it was going to happen and you're going to live. Would you just YOLO after that? Yeah, I feel like you just feel indestructible.

But if half the plane lives, then he doesn't feel cool enough. No, I agree with that. I don't want me and 30 other people. Right. You're still in a nice percentage though. If you're one of the 5 out of 90, motivational speaking money

is already there. 5 is kind of cool. And then you could be in a group text for the rest of your life. Or you just take the land there thing to the ground and you're like, why don't we keep this going? It worked for us up there. Probably be good for our podcast too. God, no doubt.

All right, I'll try. Okay. I'll work on it. That'll get you out of the car, Rep. Let's see, where am I? On this day in 1991, 42 people killed in a brawl and stampede during a soccer match in Johannesburg, South Africa. However, it says here that they were only soccer fans.

Hell yeah, bitches! That's a lighter. Lighter up. Hell yeah, bitches! That's a lighter. Lighter up. Hell yeah! That guy threw a chair against the wall. Soccer tragedy. This is the day in 2008 that the Cowboys were the number one seed in the NFC. Played the Giants.

And R.W. McCorders picked off Tony Romo in the end zone with nine seconds left. And the Giants end up going to the NFC Championship game. 21-17 win over the Cowboys at Texas Stadium. I was at that game. I drove five hours to go to that game. I was out of town. Were you sad? I was pretty frustrated.

Remember the Cabo? That was Cabo Central. Did y'all have some fun with the Cabo storyline, Dan? We didn't even talk about it. Okay. Is that Creighton lost it in the lights? Yeah, the wide open slant. Creighton.

Brutal. Dude, Cabo continues to be an argument to this day do you do you side with them on that or i side with they shouldn't be going to cabo oh yeah it's not the same it is not the same the only thing bad for it was they took jessica simpson's dad like if that car hadn't gone you could actually no the worst thing is they brought Barbie Carpenter yeah but at least he has a girl you took Joe Simpson with you like if it was like a couples like relax okay what is Joe Simpson

he had like the earrings and the bleached blonde hair her creepy dad yeah Dan read her book I read her whole book yeah he's a bad guy she turned on him she didn't really rip him no Yeah, it's great. He's a bad guy. Yeah. He's a bad guy. But, yeah, no. She turned on him? She didn't really rip him, no.

No, just describing how it was was bad enough, I think. But it makes you feel like an old man because I don't think they need to just be out there lifting weights, throwing a football through the tire for 13 days. But you can't go to Cabo. You can also wait two weeks to go to Cabo. You can wait, like, a month until after the Super Bowl to go to Cabo. You don't say, yeah, but I could just look at film there just the same. You can't do that just the same.

In a beautiful place like that with your girlfriend saying, hey, come on, what are you going to do? Just sit there watching that film all day? I can't believe Witten did it too, of all people. That's the thing. That might keep him from getting the job. On this day in 2018,

it was a false alarm warning of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii. Dude. Sent the islands into a panic. There's a very long New Yorker article about this. Officials apologized, said the alert was sent when someone hit the wrong button during a shift change. Yeah. I remember Hawkeye, I think his sister lived there or something, and he was very worried about that. But everything's fine now.

Crazy. And on this day in 2021, the U.S. government carried out its first execution of a female inmate in 70 years. Good. Glass ceiling shattered with a bullet. Lisa Montgomery was the lady that was killed. She had strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri and cut the baby from her womb. Good.

Oh, my God. I wonder where that kid is. Is that kid doing all right? Cut the baby from her womb. Good. Oh, my God. God. Wonder where that kid is. Is that kid doing all right? This is a very, what was that show? Ozark. I think they did that in Ozark. Don't know it, but I always thought that show seemed pretty unbelievable.

Maybe I need to reevaluate that. Now he is called her miracle baby. Other birthdays today include former Ranger Akinora Otsuka. Otsuka, yeah. 53. He was part of the Chris Young trade they were trying to sell to us. Like, oh, no, this guy's... Connor McDavid, 28.

Trying to get an update on this baby. The baby that was cut out of the womb. It didn't die right away. By Lisa Montgomery. But it's not doing great. I'm going to find out. You keep doing your thing. But it didn't die.

It's alive? I think it might be. I think it might have gotten punished because it died, right? I think he married the mom. No, might have gotten punished because it died, right? I think he married baby Jessica. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's right. In this little portal we have. Okay, Russell, I don't know how to pronounce this name. You guys are big Longhorn fans.

Maryland. The Longhorn punter from the late 70s. Russell Erksleben. Russell Erksleben. Russell Erksleben. Erksleben. He is 68 today. He went to college with my mom at UT, yeah. So check this out.

They might have made out one time. I don't know. Nice. Has the longest field goal in NCAA history, 67 yards, but it was on a tee. It was on a tee. They used to be able to do that. Yep. He went to the Saints, right? I think he played for the Saints

after that, if I'm not mistaken. Russell works there. So because he was a kicker slash punter, and because this is the 1970s, in 1979, he was the 11th overall pick in the draft by the Saints. Wow.

Flip the field, baby. Hey, we could save a roster spot. He can do both. Oh, my gosh. We thought Janikowski was bad, which actually might have ended up being a decent pick when you think about it. Right.

He hung around for like 15, 20 years, right? Yeah, he was there for a while so russell erksleben 11th pick wow pretty soon lost that kicking job and was just a punter so they pretty much drafted a punter with the 11th overall pick and you wonder how are the saints always bad he later became a currency investor. Six year NFL career. So he's out of the NFL in 1985. Becomes an investor.

Convicted of securities fraud in 1999. Went to prison. Released in 2005. Convicted again of investment fraud in 2014, and went to prison again for seven and a half years. Man. Stay away from the money.

He kind of did the Big Nate thing. Like, ah, they won't be. There's no way they'll be following me now. I've already been to prison. Let me do some more investment fraud and he kept doing it his reasoning for the second

time though was nice though I'll give him credit that's one of the best quotes in Cowboys history he said you do it they said why would you you got busted the first time why the hell would you do it a second time and he said to make up for the money you lost the first time yeah Why the hell would you do it a second time? And he said, to make up for the money you lost the first time. Yeah, dude, for sure. Pretty logical.

That's why I'm betting tonight. Yeah, exactly. You're chasing the Sunday slate on Monday night. It's the Monday night wager. By the way, I can't get you a current picture, but that baby's very much alive and is 20 now. Healthy?

Yeah, I think so. I i believe so and her birthday is on the same day that her mom died obviously yeah which is a weird thing to just have to think about every time around and the the murderer her husband had the baby at the time and they had to come to him and be like that's not your baby. Because his wife had somehow pretended and convinced people that she was pregnant for nine months. Obviously, there was something going on with their relationship where she was able to disappear and come back and be like,

look, I'm not pregnant anymore. Here's our baby. Cops show up at his house, and they're like, that's not your kid. Get a little ozempic. Right. All of a sudden. Damn, dude, that's crazy.

Golly. Sorry. So. All of a sudden. Damn, dude, that's crazy. Golly. So the kid's 20 now. Don't. I'm just saying, so the kid's 20 now. I already told you I don't have a photo, and I looked. That's as legal as you can get. You want to talk about being appreciative. I am kind of curious, though, if we're being honest.

Yeah. Look, we're all curious at what point do you bring that up like if she's on a date like is that is that a is that do you work your way into that story like when does she tell you yeah like is that like the first thing it's got it's kind of kind of a lot it is well maybe yeah that's when you're asking about uh mom yeah your mom oh Oh, your parents? Well, my mom, actually. When'd she go?

Oh, she died during childbirth. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah. How did it happen? Well, yeah, it's tough. Did you say that she'd been faking a pregnancy? I did. Okay.

Nate Silver, 46. Up and down decade for old Nathan. He's a sub-stack guy now. Natalia Dyer is 27. Who? Of course, that's Nancy Wheeler in Stranger Things. Oh, my God. She's uncomfortably skinny.

Smoke monster. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 64. Incredible. Is she funny? She is funny, I think, i think but subject 64 huh she's also beautiful getting hotter by the year wasn't she in that wasn't there a movie that she was in where she was pretty good it was a netflix movie really what wasn't it you people or something like that was she the mom yeah yeah okay yeah. Okay, I've seen that. Yeah, yeah. She was really good in that, I thought. I thought that was a pretty good movie.

Is that bad? No, no. I have heard good things. Oh, you never saw it? No. It's the movie where Jonah Hill's dating Ice Cube's daughter or something. No, not Ice Cube. That was racist.

Eddie Murphy. Oh, yeah. You know. Same guy. Wait, there was a... I've seen something recently with Jonah Hill dating Ice Cube's daughter. That is from 21 Jump Street. I'm pretty sure that's an old clip.

Yeah. See? See? It's not that bad of a – Thank you. Yeah, there you go. Thank you. Liam Hemsworth is 35.

Who's that? Actor. He was in Independence Day. Must have been a kid, right? Yeah. He's 35 today. Did they remake it? Yeah, they remade it.

Oh, they did? Yeah, in 2016. Independence Day resurgence. We do not recognize that as part of canon. Do you refer or refuse to see that, like the second point break? Yeah. Both just didn't happen to me. Yeah.

And William Hung, 42. Oh yeah, legend. Boy, what a time. There just is an entire file of culture that's just Dan. I don't really know how to describe it fully, but... What do you mean?

I just feel like you probably were like, let's check this out. This guy's not bad. William Hung? Yeah. The American Idol? Anything with a MIDI track behind it. Bob Baffert, 72. Is that hockey? That's the horse trainer.

Oh, the guy who looks like Ashley Schaefer from Eastbound and Down. And all his horses were dying from his roids. Yeah. Maybe got suspended for a couple years. Yeah, that's good stuff. And went in the derby again. Born on the stay, now dead. No one I care, I think is important enough to mention here. Dead on the stay, still dead.

Sorry. Is that William Hung? No. Siegfried Fischbacher. He's from Siegfried and Roy. Or is it Wah? Robbie Knievel. Danny.

Died on this day in 2023. Your guy. And Tom Shales. Of the Barnett. He is a writer. Thank you, also. And he's the author of that SNL book. That kick-ass SNL book that really long...

I thought that James guy wrote that. James Andrew Miller. You know what? Now that you say that... Oh, he co-wrote it with him. Oh, he did? Yeah. Okay.

There you go. We're both right. As always. Yeah. Hell yeah. And that was Today in History. That was a fun day, guys. Landry Locker from Houston.

Anything to promote? Anything? Closing remarks? Locker Room on YouTube. New angle to this Texans game, by the way. This is something nobody's talking about. Patrick Mahomes had another kid today. So I don't know if that makes Chiefs more likely or not,

but they just had another kid today. Maybe that's why the Lions ate. Who knows? Listen, that's coverage you're going to get nowhere but the locker room on YouTube. Go check it out. It's got a cool studio. All right.

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